XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:12:47 +0000, vallor wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I think that most of us reading this newsgroup didn't even realize that   
   Hugh had the problem to begin with. After all, he has a tendency to write   
   long essays in every post, it's possible that we fell asleep before he got   
   to the question.   
      
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