XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   
   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:43:00 -0500, -hh  wrote:   
      
   > On 1/29/26 17:43, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:33:30 -0500, -hh wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> But the main thing is "...son-of-a-gun it worked!"   
   > >   
   > > I still don’t understand why it was so hard to take a few minutes to   
   > > check this for yourself.   
   >   
   > Because:   
   >   
   > a)  COLA is a Linux advocacy group, so the advocates by effective   
   > definition should be more than happy to do this.   
   >   
   > b)  COLA is a Linux advocacy group, and I've provided this challenge in   
   > the past and no advocate had ever succeed before.   
   >   
   > Case in point, here's a reminder from 2015:   
   >   
   > "Clifford Stohl proved that belief to be false over a decade ago. And   
   > I could re-post that old PowerPoint file with a $50 cash reward to   
   > rove it yet again: care to make it into a friendly wager for charity?"   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >   
   > SO why did it just finally get solved in 2026?  So is the reason why it   
   > was finally solved now that something changed in FOSS, or are COLA's   
   > advocates just so incompetent?  Or just plain lazy?   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > > Is LibreOffice that hard to download for Windows?   
   >   
   > I wouldn't know about Windows in this context.   
   >   
   >   
   > > Did you think you had to reboot after installing it, like you   
   > > have to do for Microsoft Office, or something?   
   >   
   >   
   > Not applicable, but regardless of how easy/hard that it would be for a   
   > non Linux/FOSS advocate user to search, find, download, install the   
   > LibreOffice App, and THEN download the reference file to test it ...   
   >   
   > ... that its vastly easier for the COLA Linux FOSS advocate, since   
   > they've already done those first four steps: they merely needed to   
   > right-click on the provided link & drop it on their already installed   
   > App to run the test.   
   >   
   >   
   > That's much easier, so why did none of those insult-slinging monkeys   
   > ever bother to do this for over a decade?   
   >   
   > As I said, is the reason why it was finally solved now because:   
   >   
   > * the FOSS App recently added ancient file format support?   
   > * that COLA's FOSS advocates are incompetent?   
   > * that COLA's FOSS advocates are just plain lazy?   
   >   
   > YMMV, but I don't particularly feel like reading ~30 years of software   
   > release notes to see if its the first possibility, but you're welcome to   
   > do it - because that's what's needed (& exist) to defend the COLA   
   > participants who've failed to show a FOSS solution for over a decade.   
   >   
   >   
   > -hh   
      
   So FOSS solves your problem, and your response is to...insult your   
   audience?   
      
   You might consider that the "issue" is nobody cared enough   
   about your problem to help you with it...and that is less likely   
   in the future, if you're going to sling insults at your readers.   
      
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