2009/6/14 Phillip Chandler <phillip.chand...@ntlworld.com>: > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 13:58 +0100, John Cooper wrote: > > As an MS user, O/S and software, I can tell you, hand on heart and my £20 in > the pot, > that OO is more bloated than MS Office, so quit trying to con me that its > not, Ive done the > homework on my machine, and if needed can come along and demonstrate. > The lot of you can sprout your big fancy dictionary rubbish all day. > > Heres what you do. Go into synaptic, select all of the OO progs, and > just see the total MB at the bottom that your system is going to remove. > I can tell you that MS Office is, at worst, only 2/3 the size. >
How really cares about 20 -100 MB difference these days ? Can't you afford a 20 GB hard disk :P > I had my watch counting the seconds that it took to load OO writer, then > did the same with MS Word under Crossover, and it was definitely more > than 5 seconds, which might not sound a lot, but its the fact. > Please use windows. There is no future for crossover or wine . Both of them will break the machines. We dont want people complaining my so and so game crashed the system .. ubuntu sucks .. WTF > But not everyone > has the latest and greatest hardware, and sure dont have the obvious > funds that you may have to upgrade. Freedom of choice only works so far, > XP Office works faster and better for me under linux, than OO. > FYI I come from India (3rd world :P ).. and many of us are happily using Open Office . I am also glad to say that many corporates are removing MS office since OO satisfies their basic needs . > expected to use it with linux. Debian users might think that "Real Linux > Users use FOSS, and nothing else", but I dont. Agree , After all it's your machine , time and resources and finally its you who has to gain from the productivity the machine gives . I also agree that OO has long way to go . Let's help OO and I wish all of us post feature requests and file bugs to the Quality assurance team . My small opinion on OO: Here is a project which is trying to mimic a M$ product which is closed. How do you expect .doc or .docx files to work perfectly ? But still OO is trying to do its level best . Be happy that you are freely (cost and freedom) able to open a propreitary standard doc,ppt etc and are able to edit it (not perfectly) and save it in the same format,export to free formats like ODP and other formats like PDF,HTML etc . As LUG people it's our duty to spread the usage of Open documents (ODP ) . Also provide a PDF file for non - OO users as non-OO users dont deserve to edit the file :P > If I want a stable, secure system with dvd playback and an office that I > dont have to scratch waiting for it to load, and I have to pay whatever > to get that, then I will willingly pay for the privilege. But then a > system is only as secure as the competence of the end user. >> By trying to improve this they need our help. Your comments will prevent >> people even trying open office as it is not as bad as you make out. OO >> is at v3, MS office is v10 (or 11?). It will improve the more people and >> companies use it, but it is far from crap. >> Guys please stop crying over the list . Start complaining and file bugs. The open office quality assurance team needs you desparately . If you really care about Free as in Freedom .. and if you want things to improve in free software go to http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html > This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views May be confidential ? LOL dude you are posting to a *mailing list* :P And please use short footers. Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri www.pavithran.org Disclaimer : just for this mail .. M$ I am doing negative promotion don't sue me.. this is Europe . Your stupid jurisdiction is in America $$$ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
