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LibreOffice 4.0: First Take (ZDNet)LibreOffice 4.0: First Take (ZDNet)Posted Feb 13, 2013 5:10 UTC (Wed) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427)In reply to: LibreOffice 4.0: First Take (ZDNet) by tialaramex Parent article: LibreOffice 4.0: First Take (ZDNet)
This "standard" went so far, that Excel formulas were not tranferable between the same software in different languages (no idea whether this is still true today).
For example as SUM would be SUMME in German an SOMME in French... what a nightmare. And people were happily living with this, adapting formulas in docuemnts by hand!
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LibreOffice 4.0: First Take (ZDNet) Posted Feb 14, 2013 8:03 UTC (Thu) by ebirdie (subscriber, #512) [Link]
>For example as SUM would be SUMME in German an SOMME in French... what a nightmare. And people were happily living with this, adapting formulas in docuemnts by hand!
IT consuming public forgives a lot to the vendor and forgives little to nothing to others offering alternatives. The same goes to IBM and its successor Lenovo. I had to acknowledge this while working in IT management some years ago.
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