Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: crash - crash - crash - crash. !@#$#@!

Error correction: I referred to Apache below. Silly me. End of the week 
fatigue showing up.

I meant Adobe.

t.

On 05/02/2014 08:34 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Urmas -
>
> I am "supposed" to - WHAT? You in da wrong place man. You one lost dude.
>
> I cannot recall the last time I did what I was "supposed" to do. 
> That's simply alien thought. I do what I want to do. Period, which is 
> why I'm here.
>
> I will mercifully assume you are exercising your capacity for dry wit. 
> I do that sometimes, and get myself into some interesting pickles.
>
> But just for those few who might think you could be serious:
>
> "Libre" - that means 'free to do what you choose'. Free TO choose. 
> Free to complain, to work on solutions, to contribute what you can. 
> Free to acquire a sense of ownership. Free to offer funding, when you 
> can. Free to participate, and learn, and promote the best damned 
> software you ever used to all who will listen you.
>
> Man, that sure does NOT describe the relationship I had with 
> Microsoft, Intuit, Apache, and a host of other folks who were giving 
> me "da bidness" for years, by figuring out new and devious ways to 
> build walled gardens and to force me to pay them every year for newly 
> scrambled interfaces and file formats, and wretched documentation, etc.
>
> A quick trip down memory lane:
>
> * Internet Explorer 6 - featuring the box model from hell. Torturing 
> web designers for well over a decade, with never even the suggestion 
> of a fix - they didn't flippin' care.
> * Intuit Quicken - featuring mandatory updates, at a price, every 
> year. You get to subscribe whether you want to or not.
> * Windows XP - the worst single piece of crap I even loaded onto my 
> computer. It got better after about a decade of updates - 5 years 
> after I stopped using it forever.
>
> Does opensource software it always work. Hell no. But then neither do 
> I, so I can only say so much about that. What it DOES do is offer me 
> relentless improvement; the joy of an active, supportive community; 
> documentation that is very often the best I've ever seen; and contact 
> with folks I truly believe are the most dedicated and creative 
> programmers I've ever seen.
>
> "...made just for fun..." Yeah. Serious fun. The kind that is 
> indistinguishable from the most meaningful work you can imagine. The 
> kind that's a gift to the world. The kind of fun to which my life is 
> dedicated.
>
> Before I was a psychotherapist, I was a cultural anthropologist. Let 
> me tell you a little about leadership in primitive society: Very 
> often, leaders are poor. They give away what they have for the benefit 
> of the people, which is why they get such respect, and become leaders. 
> I am very happy, in the software world in which I participate, to be 
> in the company of such leaders. Because I am "libre", I choose to be 
> here. I would not choose to be anywhere else. You could not pay me to 
> be anywhere else.
>
> Tom
>
> On 05/02/2014 05:44 PM, Urmas wrote:
> > "Tom Cloyd":
> >
> > Since the last major update (ver. 4.2.1?), my day begins with a serious
> > of crashes - only after I save both sheets (separately, of course) 6-12
> > times, each time after some small operation, do they get stable.
> >
> > You are supposed to use commercial software to do serious work. It is 
> > rather strange to complain about something made just-for-fun and 
> > given you for free.


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