[plug] Oxymoron: Microsoft, innovation

[Mark J Gaynor]

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On 18/06/2006 at 7:47 PM Alex Polglaze wrote:

>Russell Steicke wrote:
>> On 6/18/06, Bernd Felsche <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> "Mark J Gaynor" <mark at mjg.id.au> writes:
>>> >Why does OOo not import basic CSV data?
>>> Because you've not written that merge function yet. :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Well said.  The opportunity to contribute instead of complaining is
>> there, as always: search for csv in
>> http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html
>
>I think this comment says it all.
>
>Most people "use" computers as a tool. We supply the bits of those tools
>so that they can 
>do a job.
>
>If we give them a spreadsheet tool, we don't tell them that they then have
>programme their 
>own solutions, or work out how to do it. If the tool doesn't work the
>first time it will 
>be discarded and replaced with one that does work.
>
>This is called reality.

Well said Alex.

Mark
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