Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner? Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:38:56 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: <0v6lplxtpp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <1864d8e7ae136b94$115$2498948$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <68c5ef9f@news.ausics.net> <10a5sou$1360o$7@dont-email.me> <5XCdnV9UFZon_1r1nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5mNeGVEn1nazUuL35tAxJw55IxXxb5w2MCZ0tBoF7mXq3XnT0C X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:fayB35oZ+sp0dicdykz+yrJ1+7k= sha256:rI5G2ktqbW+RTniFCTsnSOSQz4LPz2qmk/qomTdGtK8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <5XCdnV9UFZon_1r1nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@supernews.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:697218 comp.os.linux.misc:74239 On 2025-09-15 02:50, Tyrone wrote: > On Sep 14, 2025 at 8:13:38 PM EDT, ""Carlos E.R."" > wrote: > >> On 2025-09-14 10:01, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> On 13/09/2025 23:26, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> Look at the last table which is supposed to indicate the companies >>>> contributing to maintenance - which is effectively control over the >>>> code others contribute. It's still mainly "huge corps" >>> >>> Who else is interested in an alternative and free standard to Microsoft >>> Office? >>> If you want to disseminate a finished document, you do it as a PDF. >>> Only documents that require much evolution and editing are circulated as >>> 'source'. >>> Only big companies do that. >>> In terms of formatted documents anyway. Let's not introduce plain text >>> source code. >> >> In the 2000 we were sharing .doc files at Lucent, via exchange email. >> The IT people did not like it, because the size of mail folders exploded >> and the servers could barely cope. >> >> The docs were sent to multiple recipients. And each reply saying "got >> it" resent the same documents back and forth multiplied many times. It >> was crazy. > > Yeah that happens when you Reply To All AND keep the attachments in the Reply > To All. Just reply To Sender and delete the attachments. What is REALLY funny > is the people who plead "Stop replying to All" and their plea was - you > guessed it - sent to All. It was the default action, reply to all and include attachments. > Not to mention that Exchange servers - like everything else - have come a long > way in 25 years. I hope! But I have not been there. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;