Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

Le 11 octobre 2015 14:43:39 GMT+02:00, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Le 11/10/2015 14:15, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
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> Charles,
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> > I do not know where you got that support and security updates are
> only available on Linux.  That is factually wrong and serious bullshit.
> Get your facts straight: support is the same for the three officially
> supported platforms: Windowslinux and OS X. Remember that many code
> contributors have customers too. 
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> I would be interested in learning where longterm support for "older"
> versions of LibreOffice on OSX which involves security updates and bug
> fixes is generally available. It would certainly help me explain to
> people on bugzilla using older versions of LibreOffice on OSX why there
> is no hope of bug xyz being fixed unless they upgrade both their OS and
> install the latest version of LibreOffice.

Indeed if you speak of older versions (as in versions currently not availabe as one of our two 
branches) , the LibreOffice project itself has no support for this. Companies such as CIB or 
Collabora usually do on all platforms. 

Now I realize there may be frustrations involved by handling upgrades but you would still deploy 
upgrades anyway regardless of the software. Would automatic incremental updates do the trick for 
you?

> If I look here :
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> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/#Apple
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> Either I can't read properly or else the information at that place is
> incorrect. As I was unable to find anywhere on the LibreOffice website
> that indicates that there is support available for "older" versions of
> LibreOffice on OSX < 10.8, then may I assume that my facts are indeed
> right after all ?

Your facts are wrong as you expect from LibreOffice what you don't expect from any other software, 
which is ad vitam support for free by the community. In short you expect "the butter, the money for 
the butter, the smile and thanks from the dairy merchant" all at the same time. 

So yes indeed, LibreOffice does not support all its versions... but then who does ?  Microsoft ?  
Mozilla? Does AOO support the 3.3? Does it patch the 3.2.1? No? How outrageous. :-)

Best,

Charles. 


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Hello Alex, 
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