From: nospam@dfs.com   
      
   On 1/30/2026 4:56 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:50 -0500, DFS wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/28/2026 2:12 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Let’s see you use Microsoft Office to match that.   
   >>   
   >> eh? Access has been ODBC-connective since 1993. I built lots of   
   >> corporate Access apps using Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata and DB2   
   >> backends. Not only that, but you could connect as many different   
   >> backends as you wanted to an Access frontend.   
   >   
   > So why didn’t you think to use it, then?   
      
      
   So why didn't you think to do some basic research before making your   
   stupid post "Let's see MS Office match that"?   
      
      
      
   >> Not to mention the superior Object Model underpinning MS Office, or   
   >> the far superior form and report designers and VBA scripting   
   >> language.   
   >   
   > So why didn’t you use VBA to do your little programming exercise? Why   
   > did you have to use Python, and run it on Linux via WSL2, at that?   
   > Windows and Office no longer good enough for you?   
      
   So why do you mostly talk about Windows - Linux no longer good enough   
   for you?   
      
   Why do you write Python code?  C no longer good enough for you?   
      
      
   Give it up Larry Duh - trolling and flaming isn't your forte.  Stick to   
   your lame lies about Windows and Office.   
      
      
      
   >> LO just can't compete.   
   >   
   > And yet you never thought of using your wonderful Microsoft Office to   
   > solve this problem?   
      
   MS Office will always be wonderful.   
      
   For example, these Access 2003 apps I created still can't be duplicated   
   using LibreOffice crapware:   
      
   https://imgur.com/hv5AWU6   
   https://imgur.com/a/vrlDw   
   https://imgur.com/a/x7TnMZC   
      
      
   23 years later and LO is still way behind.   
      
      
   Isn't it time for all you MS-haters around the world to fix LibreOffice?   
      
   Maybe have a big conference/bitch-fest where you promise each other   
   you'll "destroy Microsoft Office"?   
      
   Oh wait, y'all have been holding such gatherings annually since 2011.   
      
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