Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Wood chucking

Hi :)
I think that on this particular list we should be open and allow people to use any style they want. 
 

Each
of the 3 main styles have merits but also have flaws.  I think this
particular list should 1.  Welcome people whatever style they use and
avoid demanding they change styles purely for us
2.  Let them see
there are other styles and hopefully help them learn-by-example the
best ways of handling those other styles so that people are prepared
when they reach other OpenSource mailing lists.  

One of my
hopes is that LO becomes as successful as Firefox and becomes another
gateway that helps people move into the OpenSource world.  


Great
product and technically accurate answers are only a part of that.  Many
times great products have failed and given way to far inferior product
due to an assumption that the best product will always win.  My hope is
that LO succeeds despite being a great product.  

Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Thu, 16/8/12, Scott Castaline <skotchman@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Scott Castaline <skotchman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Wood chucking
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 16 August, 2012, 20:23

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Thank you Marc, couldn't have sad it better my self. Now let the flame
wars begin again about top vs. bottom posting. I'm normally a bottom
poster, but am trying to convert.

- From another 60 something old fart!


On 08/16/2012 12:55 PM, Marc Grober wrote:
> Give it a rest.
>
> I am 60. I know what an RFQ and what an RFC is. I know what NATO is
> and what a BFF is, lol.....   I know where I can go to find
> acronyms because I spent the time to go look. And if someone
> references zotero,  instead of asking a dozen times what it is, I
> can spend two seconds finding out for myself. The same applies with
> respect to AOO,  which one could find, knowing the context, in 15
> seconds..... And I know that no matter what term I might use on
> this list,  someone will argue that they want to know what the term
> means and eventually that I used the term inappropriately.
>
> Like "Engineering", for example. Let's argue about what an engineer
> is. The neighbor kid thinks an engineer is someone who runs a
> train. Someone want to argue that? I think the Roman Army was
> staffed with engineers. Someone is going to tell me I am mistaken
> because Roman army did ENGineering, not engiNEERing?  SOmeone else
> wants to suggest that today engineers are "Scientists"?  Not
> according to the spokesman for the Higgs Boson team, lol.... 
> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/08/mars-rover-should-not-get-so-much-attention-say-higgs-boson-scientists.html
, rofl.....  but, come on,  this is a grgeat place to discuss anything
> other than LibreOffice!
>
> I apologize if I appear rude (yes, I am aware of the Latin root
> and would like to spend some considerable time on this list
> discussing the use of "rude" as meaning impolite, as opposed to
> unlearned,  but think doing that in a new thread would be
> preferable, though we could argue about the appropriateness of a
> new thread to accomplish same here for a bit),  but I have a burr
> under my saddle, as it were, and it seems to me if one is going to
> chew some butt,  one might as well chew as much butt as one can
> chew....  kind of a how much wood can a wood chuck chuck thing.....
> (no, this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Ti9xCX_M - has 
> nothing to do with it)
>
> If one looks at the bandwidth on this list I think one would note,
> on a regular basis, that a substantial portion is spent arguing
> over communication style (as is the case with this epistle.)
>
> Give it a rest.

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