Darren New wrote:
> :-)  Certainly complaining about oocalc is more likely to be productive 
> than complaining about excel.

No, complaining is never that productive, though sometimes we can't 
help.  Complaining to be effective in the free software world should be 
filing a bug report and detailing the steps to reproduce it.  Most 
people just give up on it and turn to forum bashing.

Of course, much more effective than complaining or filing bug reports is 
taking some time to volunteer to squash a few bugs or add missing and 
useful functionality, if you're a developer.  Yesterday, there was a 
complain here about Thunderbird not having a simple textbox to edit 
newsgroups signatures.  I'd never know that as I don't use it.  I'm 
thinking of implementing it whenever I get the time.  Shouldn't be that 
difficult, as soon as I get to the exact point where it happens in the 
gigantic Mozilla source.  Thankfully, that project has come up with some 
excellent infrastructure to help out identify bugs (bugzilla) or browse 
the fully annotated and hyperlinked source, via LXR:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/

but it's so damned biiiig! :P

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