Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Andreas Säger wrote:

> Am 02.03.2012 01:49, Dag Wieers wrote:
> >  Why are you so defensive ?
> >
> >  Open Source thrives on people that are interested in a certain subject,
> >  and one of those subjects could be improving the PPT import and export
> >  filters. Even if you personally are not affected by such improvements,
> >  why would you go against any such progress ? Why can users that
> >  experience a problem not report this to the benefit for those who would
> >  like to see this fixed ?
> >
> >  Why are you concerned with what other people are willing to spend their
> >  free time (or maybe even paid time) on ?
> >
> >  It's one thing to have a personal preference over what *other* people
> >  do, it's a completely different subject if one is being condescending to
> >  users who have different expectations or use-cases than yourself.
>
> OK, can open source make my car fly and swim if I only wish hard enough?

What does flying/swimming cars have to do with improving the existing PPT 
import and export filter ?


> There are limitations in software development just like there are limitations 
> in the physical technology.

I am not denying there are limitations, but I refuse to believe we have 
come to the point we have reached any such limitation.


> MS has the big truck and refuses to carry the comparatively small ODF 
> payload. Instead they do nothing and watch how "we" spend a lot of time 
> struggling with their huge payload on a comparatively small truck. Finally, 
> LibreOffice 5 will be an alternative OOXML suite with ODF as legacy file 
> format to be dropped in version 6.

It's a fallacy to think that the number of developers in LibreOffice is a 
constant, and that the only way to improve (what you deem) important is to 
focus. The success of Open Source is that it enables people to get 
involved in what interests *them*, and your reaction, both in style and 
body, actively demotivates people to get involved in anything other than 
what *you* think is important.

If more people engage (and you seem to be afraid of having _new_ people 
become engaged in areas you are not interested in) we enlarge the 
development community, or at least make it easier to track known issues 
and potential improvements.

I don't know what you are afraid of, but fear is the path to the dark 
side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate...

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