Re: OpenOffice.org

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Hubert Figuiere wrote:

> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:12:32 -0500
> From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> To: sxxx@o2.pl
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org
>
> sxxx@o2.pl wrote:
> > Hi, maybe I shouldn't do it, especially on this mailing list, but I
> > would like to strongly recommend you OpenOffice Writer instead of
> > Abiword. If you already didn't know, you can get it from
> > http://www.openoffice.org. The package is completely free
> > (open-source), multiplatform, multilingual and believe me, it's FAR
> > BETTER than Abiword. Best regards!
>
> That post is completely inflamatory and mark a huge disrepect to the
> developers and the other contributors to AbiWord. Not even mentionning
> that pack of lies.

Hubert put massive amounts of work into Abiword over the years and was
instrumental in creating the Mac OS X version of Abiword. Given how often
people made rude and unhelpful comments I think we are glad he doesn't
flame us all.

You mentioned English is not your first language so perhaps you did not
mean to sound as harsh as you did. Also your choice not to include your
name and say who you are always makes it a little more difficult for us to
know if we should take your comments seriously or if you are only trying
to start an arguement (but your followup messages showed you were willing
to try and be helpful).

> If you have issues with AbiWord, you are welcome to provide feedback
> thru the bug tracker that we made available. If like OOo, then fine. You
> are also welcome to use it if you prefer. But coming here and telling
> anyone to switch away from AbiWord denotes a really childish attitude,
> and deserve to be flamed;

Unlike many other open source projects I know (dont ask) we try to make an
extra effort to help people understand but if Abiword is not for you then
that is okay too. Please do not presume we do not know what we are doing.
I hope the time we have spent trying to explain things has been well spent
and you can better understand us now.

> and to add to the rest, is OFF-TOPIC. The
> abiword mailing list is dedicated to talking about abiword.

Unless it is relevant to Abiword we try not to talk about other
software.

Good luck, I hope this experience has taught you something about how to
ask better questions as you will then get better responses and even help
from developers.

Later

Alan.

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Received on Sat Nov 5 21:01:36 2005