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Le 2010-12-08 12:00, Olivier Hallot a écrit :
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The no
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ise I had to fight in a 120.000 desktop deployment I am managing,
by the
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IT security dept who almost made me write under oath that these
stupidities are
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not a security threat.
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Sorry, but I had pretty tought times dealing with that to have fun
with. It is
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not. OOo and LO are the underdogs in a (any) migration situation
and easter eggs
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is another ammo for those who want to go back to Microsoft Office.
I rather
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prefer not to give'em that sweet taste.
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No matter how good or fun is your easter-egg, it puts you a label
of lack of
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seriousness when it comes to address the enterprise needs or code
quality
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reputation.
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I have to echo Olivier's words too. I am/was in the process of
recommending the OOo (and now) LibreOffice to a school board in
Canada. "Easter Eggs" at this point would not go well with the
committees and higher ups. As with Olivier's situation, other
members of committees at this school board as well as many other
stakeholders will grab to any kind of excuse to de-value the
LibreOffice distro in order to keep MSO on the computers. IMO, it
does not make the suite look professional if Easter eggs are
hidden in the code. My particular board has been blacklisted twice
this year for having been the source of virus mailouts (due to
only 2 teachers irresponsible behaviour on their email system).
They are now very wary of any piece of software that has any kind
of hidden code.
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Add this to the reason why we are now recommending the use of
LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice. It just makes it harder to
market the distro.
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Marc
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