Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Please do not submit Bug reports concerning 3.5 Beta0

2011-12-21 Thread Petr Mladek
Hi Pedro, Pedro Lino píše v Čt 15. 12. 2011 v 23:15 +: > The builds available for Linux at > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ > are only 2.3Mb in size... Could you please provide more information? Which file size was only 2.3MB? Note that the Czech language pack size is 2.8M

[tdf-discuss] the best bug-hunt invitation ever

2011-12-21 Thread adept techlists - kazar
Hello all -- I've been a computer and application "power user" since 1985 (and dedicated word-processor operator [Philips Micom] prior to that), and moved into tech consulting and applications design (4G database stuff) in 1993 through 2008 ... yet in the past I have always been very frustra

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread e-letter
On 21/12/2011, Pedro wrote: > > But how can you help it? If the next time they choose to offer a free copy > of LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice, is there anything TDF can do about it? > Perhaps this should be considered an unfortunate cost of allowing freedom. Assuming this organisation does no

[tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Pedro
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > > may be you want to try > http://www.mywot.com/? > Thanks! Added to my bookmarks for future reference. In this case, the site is so "fishy" there was no need to check. I just shared this for fun. Because I found the "Offer" absurd :) -- Pedro -- View this message

[tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Pedro
e-letter wrote > > Perhaps this should be considered an unfortunate cost of allowing > freedom. Assuming this organisation does not alter the source code, > the (L)GPL allows for sale of software. TDF should not be considered > liable for the naivity/simplicity of some people buying software that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/12/2011 Pedro wrote: Do you mean the (L)GPL license allows people to sell copies of LibreOffice? I thought it only allowed to charge for production/distribution costs... It does allow to sell copies, and the Free Software Foundation encourages it. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selli

[tdf-discuss] bug-hunt wiki: add info re IRC server name & channel

2011-12-21 Thread adept techlists - kazar
I found the IRC channel in the invitational email. But only after looking on http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1#Find_a_bug.3F where i did not find where to go. (But thanks for the link to IRC help!) In the "Find a Bug?" section there are links to Buzilla and the

[tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Pedro
Andrea Pescetti wrote > > It does allow to sell copies, and the Free Software Foundation > encourages it. See > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > Thank you for the link. Interesting reading. I still can't imagine any situation or place where (in the current world) it would make sen

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:19:55AM -0800, Pedro wrote: > > Andrea Pescetti wrote > > > > It does allow to sell copies, and the Free Software Foundation > > encourages it. See > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > > > > Thank you for the link. Interesting reading. > > I still can't

Re: [tdf-discuss] bug-hunt wiki: add info re IRC server name & channel

2011-12-21 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi, adept techlists - kazar wrote (21-12-11 15:42) I found the IRC channel in the invitational email. But only after looking on http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1#Find_a_bug.3F where i did not find where to go. (But thanks for the link to IRC help!) You're welcom

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [tdf-discuss] Re: Please do not submit Bug reports concerning 3.5 Beta0

2011-12-21 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Petr, *, On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Petr Mladek wrote: > Pedro Lino píše v Čt 15. 12. 2011 v 23:15 +: >> The builds available for Linux at >> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ >> are only 2.3Mb in size... > > Could you please provide more information? Which file size

[tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
"Pedro" wrote in message news:1324480795656-3604311.p...@n3.nabble.com... Andrea Pescetti wrote It does allow to sell copies, and the Free Software Foundation encourages it. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Thank you for the link. Interesting reading. I still can't imagine