Dear Sirs, I'm writing to you with regards to what concerns me the most while using Open Office of your design.
I truely i deeply acknowledge the fact that your software is free to use and stems from a great idea of making the world a better place, at least in the field of text editing. However, there is something I need to take vote against... I hate using Microsoft Office due to its misconcepted ideas of what is best for most people. Their software behaves as if it knew better what a user wants, and averting its own actions is not only time-consuming but annoying to the point of abuse. Once I hoped to find a better text editor, and it happened - I liked the Apache Open Office at first sight. With time the changes you introduced happened to worry me more and more - you decided to follow the steps of the aforementioned company, which makes your software incrementally unergonomic/user unfriendly. My message is 'let people decide what to key in, what to do, what to make a text look like, and not think for them as if you knew better'. Allow them to choose, not to fight your own ideas. Unchecking certain options is not easy not only due to the jargon but also because one has to spend hours on finding what has just happened to the text and how to disable it permanently. Sometimes more is less, and less is more. With regards, Tomasz Małecki.
