Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestions to PTB

Hi :)
My answer is to keep whichever product you were using previously.  Just don't 
bother to upgrade it.  Updates are a good idea but paying for a full upgrade is 
unnecessary.  


That way you can use LibreOffice most of the time but still go back to your old 
one for bits&bobs.
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 26 August, 2011 7:16:53
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestions to PTB

Le 25/08/11 19:37, Twayne a écrit :

Hi Twayne,

>    I would love to tell MS to kiss my shiny metal butt, but I can't as long 
> as some of these serious bugs continue to be ignored. One man can push one 
> car; as you're doing now, but not three or four at the same time. All this 
> is part of watching out for the future of LO and being able to say its users 
> are solidly behind it. Anythng that doesn't work shouldn't have been 
> released until it does work.

I fear you might have misunderstood how this project functions. Most of
the bugs get fixed as and when someone decides that their "itch to
scratch" is really starting to annoy them. The developers working as
employees of some of the software companies involved in the LibreOffice
project do not have set agendas with regard to bug fixing as such that I
know of - no doubt they have their own internal work pressures and
priorities to deal with before sorting out bug X or bug Y. Most of the
volunteer developers participate in the project because they like
developing, i.e. for fun. There's no fun involved in being told which
bug to fix and why that particular bug should trump all others, in that
case, they might as well go and develop something else. The fact of the
matter is that there are still too few developers to be able to maintain
the massive beast of code which LibreOffice represents. Add to that the
fact that an even smaller number really know anything about the code
base and how it works as a whole (i.e. where poking one thing causes the
butterfly to explode on your screen 50,000 miles away).

If you can live with the way the project functions, then you can live
with the bugs. If not, then from a pragmatic point of view you can
either do it yourself, pay someone to do it for you, or else come back
to the project in a few months/years time to see if things have moved on
in the direction you want.

Alex


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