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

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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