Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:45:00AM +0000, Mike Lish wrote:
Hi Carol,
You are definitely NOT out of line.
I'm not desk based and use OoO for the basics. I come from a military and
"hands on" manufacturing environment (now retired) where there must be
established procedure for every task, as I'm sure is the same for an office
environment.
That's very true for some environments, especially the military. That,
however is <spit> Microsoft thinking. Choice is *almost* always a good
thing.
Don't be too sure about an office environment. It depends on the size of
the organization and how it's structured.
In short, in *many* situations choice is preferable.
..........snip.........
"Choice" allowed me to continue updating the office suite!
I was using OpenOffice 3.3.0 when Apache took over. When Apache
released 3.4, I discovered Apache made some, IMHO bad, decisions that
broke installation on my older Slackware Linux computer. Those
decisions made it very painful for me to upgrade to their 3.4 version.
The "deal breaker" was the decision to switch glibc versions. Even
though the release notes stated that OO 3.4 would work on glibc 2.5 or
greater, that was incorrect and in actuality, it required glibc 2.11.
My computer is running glibc 2.7. I then tried building from source and
discovered another Apache decision tossed the tried-and-true GNU
autotools build environment in favor of something called dmake (sounds
like yet another PHD project looking for a home). I tried dmake, but I
still had problems building the source. I was facing updating my entire
Linux computer or abandoning OO. (See my contribution to thread "
Installing Apache OpenOffice over LibreOffice" dated 5-15-2012.)
That said, when LibreOffice split off, I tried a couple of their
releases with little success. So I continued to use OO 3.3. When I
discovered OO 3.4 was broke, I tried LO 3.5 and discovered TDF did not
make the same "bad" decisions that Apache had made. Deciding to stay
with glibc 2.5+ allowed LO to still run on my older Linux computer. I
found LO very stable, well, at least as stable as OO 3.3 and some bugs I
had with OO 3.3 were fixed in LO 3.5. That was when I switched to LO.
So, having the choice was a good thing for me.
"He, who lives on the cutting edge of technology, gets sliced to bits!"
- Adam Osborne
Girvin Herr
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