Mensaje citado por Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:50, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Chuck wrote: > > > > > I have OOo installed on my laptop and love it (don't tell my workstation > > > support group though or they'll remove it as "unsupported software"). > > > When I buy my new XP home PC this week, OOo will be installed and not MS > > > or Corel. But I wouldn't dare save a shared document at work with it. I > > > haven't come across file format problems yet but I don't want to be the > > > one responsible for corrupting a file that 20 other people are using and > > > have to explain why I was using OOo instead of Word or Excel to my boss. > > > > Over here, all the Solaris workstations are running StarOffice. The Windows > > PCs are running MS Office. We are planning to switch the Solaris boxes to > > Linux over the next year or two. > > Since Solaris has been open sourced, why switch to Linux? Just curious > really. is there a difference in support costs or something? Or are > there apps that run on Linux but not Solaris? > > -- > Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ZMS Ltd > >
Yes solaris or slowaris like some users call them is indeed a closed source OS and just recentley 'partially' opened. They are not GPL and not even OSI standard license. I think the latest was a closed-open source license (oxymorons anywhere?). Anyway GCC compiler seems to be not as recent as the linux counterpart so for that reason some applications can't work. Also man is still being ported from various applications to solaris, and finally well the linux community is bigger than solaris nowadays. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
