Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On 3 Feb 2015 03:29, "Louis Suárez-Potts" wrote: > > Simon, > > This is OT. What is? I am participating in a discussion of the page referred to legal-discuss by someone else. My last contribution was a question/suggestion in response to Andrea. As far as I can remember, nothing I have posted so f

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Simon, This is OT. > On 02-02-2015, at 12:39, Simon Phipps wrote: > > snip > S. Out of curiosity, why do you continue to support LibreOffice? After all, you visibly contribute to this project in at least a couple of areas. I haven’t checked, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you were also a

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-02 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/15 14:59, Rob Weir wrote: > There is no mention of LO on this page, nor any suggestion of it. A thing does not have to specifically mention the target for the target to be understood. Even if, as you allege, there is no such target. jonatho

Re: From user on Facebook, saying BestBuy is telling users OpenOffice has viruses

2015-02-02 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/15 22:29, Kay Schenk wrote: > The fact that an individual says OpenOffice is loaded with viruses IS a > problem. Maybe a note to BestBuy might be in order on this count. That won't be the first time,l and won't be the last time that somebody

Re: From user on Facebook, saying BestBuy is telling users OpenOffice has viruses

2015-02-02 Thread Kay Schenk
On 02/02/2015 02:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Marcus wrote: >> Am 02/02/2015 09:15 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>> https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/846449215413957 >>> >>> Not sure what we can do about this, or if it is widespread. I hope it >>> is not a general

Re: From user on Facebook, saying BestBuy is telling users OpenOffice has viruses

2015-02-02 Thread Marcus
Am 02/02/2015 11:17 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 02/02/2015 09:15 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/846449215413957 Not sure what we can do about this, or if it is widespread. I hope it is not a general attitude against o

Re: From user on Facebook, saying BestBuy is telling users OpenOffice has viruses

2015-02-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Marcus wrote: > Am 02/02/2015 09:15 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >> >> https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/846449215413957 >> >> Not sure what we can do about this, or if it is widespread. I hope it >> is not a general attitude against open source at BestBuy, the larg

Re: From user on Facebook, saying BestBuy is telling users OpenOffice has viruses

2015-02-02 Thread Marcus
Am 02/02/2015 09:15 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/846449215413957 Not sure what we can do about this, or if it is widespread. I hope it is not a general attitude against open source at BestBuy, the largest nationwide electronics retailer in America. But I do won

Re: No dictionary

2015-02-02 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 20:48:58 + Roger Meakes wrote: > I have OpenOffice v3 and some while ago downloaded V4 and all was well until > you made a further improvement to v4 and after downloading the software my > spell checker ceased to work. The system says it is turned on but it doesn’t > fu

No dictionary

2015-02-02 Thread Roger Meakes
I have OpenOffice v3 and some while ago downloaded V4 and all was well until you made a further improvement to v4 and after downloading the software my spell checker ceased to work. The system says it is turned on but it doesn’t function. I have tried in vain for more than eighteen months to d

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-02-02 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 07:52:16PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Who of the two candidates do you prefer to replace Andrea Pescetti as the > OpenOffice project PMC Chair? [x] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) [ ] Jan Iversen (jani) Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina signature.asc

From user on Facebook, saying BestBuy is telling users OpenOffice has viruses

2015-02-02 Thread Rob Weir
https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/846449215413957 Not sure what we can do about this, or if it is widespread. I hope it is not a general attitude against open source at BestBuy, the largest nationwide electronics retailer in America. But I do wonder if they have a bad feeling regarding ope

FOSDEM from a personal view.

2015-02-02 Thread jan i
Hi A big thanks to all that made FOSDEM happen, especially Andrea. FOSDEM this year was not crowded with AOO people, but there was constantly people from the eco-system around our stand. A BIG BIG thank to Stehmans (all 3!!!) for their never failing energy. I would have loved to have more techni

RE: Request for future [UTC datetimes]

2015-02-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hello Bill, That's an interesting idea for working in Universal Time Coordinates and adjusting for values entered in a local civil time. I think there are two cases. 1. Allowing Calc to record UTC so that it stays UTC even when interchanged with someone in a different timezone (or when local

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Andrea Pescetti > wrote: > > > >> The page provides relevant information in a bad way (tone and wording of > >> the above list would be OK, for example). It

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> On 30/01/2015 Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> 1) Companies that use commercially licensed software are exposed to >>> compliance risk that can be mitigated with time and expense. >>> 2) Compan

Re: Redistribution

2015-02-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Roglap wrote: > Hi, > We understand that we can distribute the software OppenOffice according to > the legal conditions. > > > It is possible work with Adwords campaigns to publish the your browser? > The process for requesting permission to use our trademarks is

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 30/01/2015 Rob Weir wrote: > >> 1) Companies that use commercially licensed software are exposed to >> compliance risk that can be mitigated with time and expense. >> 2) Companies that use copyleft software are also exposed to compliance

Redistribution

2015-02-02 Thread Roglap
Hi, We understand that we can distribute the software OppenOffice according to the legal conditions. It is possible work with Adwords campaigns to publish the your browser? Thanks a lot

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-02-02 Thread Mechtilde
Am 30.01.2015 um 19:52 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: ... > Who of the two candidates do you prefer to replace Andrea Pescetti as > the OpenOffice project PMC Chair? > [ ] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) > [X] Jan Iversen (jani) binding > --- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice.org ## Freie Office

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-02-02 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi [X] Jan Iversen (jani) Thanks. khirano On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign > from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor could > be elected. A previous vote was cancell

Request for future

2015-02-02 Thread bill harrison
Hello, I apologize if this is the wrong place to mail this type of request. In Calc one can do just about anything with time. In my case I am wanting to convert local TimeStamp time into (Universal Coordinated time) UTC. In Calc this is so easy, one simply calculates the new UTC time in anoth

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-02-02 Thread RA Stehmann
On 30.01.2015 19:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Who of the two candidates do you prefer to replace Andrea Pescetti as > the OpenOffice project PMC Chair? > [ ] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) [X] Jan Iversen (jani) binding Regards Michael Stehmann signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signa