[libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestions to PTB

In news:j3ap2n$4u8$1@dough.gmane.org,
Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> typed:
> Le 26/08/11 19:14, Twayne a icrit :
>
> Hi Twayne,
>
>
> > But MS fixes their bugs and will continue to do so until
> > 2014 in my case. I am trying to get them to think about
> > the problem that lost them a lof of people in OOo, most
> > of which are still in LO, and if you read over to
> > Alexander's post to me, there seems to be no plans to
> > pick up the bugs and fix them. They're dangerously close
> > to repeating OOo's mistakes. LO is better IMO but what
> > it does not do is what it says it'll do.
>
> Oh bugs do get fixed, just not necessarily the ones that
> any given (sub)set of users might want fixing. An example
> : Base bugs - of the more than one hundred Base bugs
> declared on bugzilla since the inception of LibreOffice,

...

Alex,

Hope this gets to you; I've never had a lot of luck with responses to the 
List (I read gmane's NNTP).

ANYway, I don't disagree with anything you said, but  figured it wouldn't 
hurt to voice my opinions. Writer is what I use most right now and yeah, 
I've seen stats on Base but I'm a one at a time kind of person <G>.
   Although I still think there is more that could be done I don't see any 
dead horses around, so my stick is still put away. From my vewpoint though, 
there needs to be a stop point where Writer et al are brought up to the 
point where 90%+ of the users can have a relatively bug-free environment and 
minimum, work-arounds pointed out for those that can't yet be fixed, for 
whatever reason.
   It would save exasperation on the part of your users and put a draw to 
the product that hasn't yet been seen. As an example, I don't believe it's a 
product that's ready for prime time at colleges or most businesses right 
now. I know of two around here who tried to implement LO and previously an 
OOo. They have since tossed it out and gone back to WP and MS respectively. 
A third one I know of is OK so far and not having any problems because they 
arean't asking it to do much more than secretarial jobs. That's only an 
experience of 3, but when you consider it, t must translate to many more. I 
only know this because I have business dealings with those three places. I 
might sound pretty negatve, but I want LO to become big time and I don't see 
how that can happen.

Thanks for listening!

Twayne` 




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