Recently I received a fairly typical “please do my research for me” email from a graduate student at a US university. It related to an open source software project I’ve done some work on and asked a couple of questions: 1. I was wondering if [project] has gone under any major restructuring/redesign initiative in its [...]
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OpenOffice is Way Too Clever
OpenOffice really is way too clever for it’s own good… It’s latest massive fail in the “I know what you want better than you do” department is to decide that just because I already have an instance of OpenOffice running on my desktop what I really want when I type “oocalc foo.ods” is for it [...]