On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:59:20 +0200
Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:

> Andre Fischer wrote:
> > There is an article on slashdot [1] "Has the Apache Software
> > Foundation Lost Its Way?" but most comments are about AOO/LO.
> > http://apache.slashdot.org/story/13/08/26/210200/has-the-apache-software-foundation-lost-its-way
> 
> ...and the comments are actually missing the point since the premise of
> the article is that open source projects do not need a foundation to
> prosper. The article is also contradictory and even contains factual
> errors, so it's probably not worth commenting at length.
> 
> Keith Curtis wrote:
> > defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver:
> > http://www.infoworld.com/print/225555
> 
> That is not very accurate too. The most interesting point is this one:
> 
> > our operations people use OpenOffice ... Because of a
> > horrible bug in Apache OpenOffice, backspacing take an eternity,
> > which is truly painful to watch.
> 
> What bug is he talking about? "Eternity" surprisingly returns a match in 
> Bugzilla, but nothing related to backspace... There is 
> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=107775 from 2010 but it is 
> about a specific document. Did anyone ever experience this "backspacing 
> take an eternity" bug?


I haven't seen any such backspacing bug on Windows 2000/XP or on any Ubuntus, 
with any OpenOffice version I can remember since StarOffice 8

-- 
Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>

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