RE: [libreoffice-users] undo functionality

 B.S. Wrote:

> for acts they have committed, or didn't commit, such as false advertising, which this product is 
> doing,

That really depends upon the legal jurisdiction one is in.

I'm not about to do a round-up of which legal jurisdictions would rule
which way, but the legal situation is not nearly as clear cut as you
seem to think it is.

However, in as much as you use American English, the odds are that you
think you can file the lawsuit in the United States. Ignoring
jurisdictional issues,
the odds are that the statements you object to, fall squarely under the
"advertising puffery" exception. Furthermore, with a few clearly defined
exceptions,
courts in the Untied States tend to treat "No Warranty" as meaning
"everything you were told was a bunch of bullshit,
and you are an idiot to think any of it was even remotely plausibly
accurate."

I've seen US courts throw noise complaints out, because there was a
single paragraph in the sheaf of papers signed at the time of purchase,
that stated: "This property
is in Noise Zone 3." That county ordinances required a specific sheet of
paper, with specific details to be signed off on, was deemed irrelevant,
because the paragraph
carried the clear, legal message, as defined by state law. That the
purchaser didn't know what "Noise Zone 3" meant, was simply a lack of
due diligence on the part
of the purchaser. ("Noise Zone 3" means that you are in the direct
flight path of extremely noisy, slow moving warplanes flying very close
to the ground, at all
hours of the day and night.)

> until others who "do have the skills" see fit to spend their valuable
time on issues that they confirm at their sole discretion,

Part of "active involvement" is either writing the code, or persuading
somebody to write the code, to fix the specific issues that one is having.

> A Bishop in the united states, once attended his own Christmas sermon dressed up as a beggar.

FYI, that never happened.  It was an illustration told by a cleric, as
part of a sermon on showing love to all.

> This person says "feel free to report a bug" after saying that no one is going to listen to it 
> anyway.

I sympathize with the non-response that filing a bug that gets ignored,
or closed as "Wont Fix" generates. Nonetheless, there are individuals and
organizations that go through those bug reports, looking for things that
can be "easily fixed/implemented". Occasionally, they even tackle the
"hard to implement"
RFEs.

> The question of whether something /should/ work in a certain way, is apparently not important.

Something people have a lot of trouble understanding, is that features
that work according to the specifications provided when implemented,
are features that work correctly. That what they do doesn't correlate
with how the rest of the world views things, is irrelevant.

That is when users can ask for a feature enhancement. Depending upon how
great a divergence from reality the original specification was,
the feature enhancement might be worked upon, or it might be ignored.

Anyway, if you think the way LibreOffice handles "Undo/Redo" is wrong,
you've a lot to learn about the deliberate errors LibreOffice spits out,
as if the answer is correct, when it is mathematically wrong.
(LibO won't fix those bugs, because users that don't know the difference
between naught and aught think that the provided answer is correct,
despite umpteen mathematical proofs from around the world proving
otherwise.(This is called accepting the delusions of users, by letting
them do as Adam Savage does: "I reject your reality, and substitute my
own." ))

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I am not a lawyer.
This is not legal advice.

jonathon

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