On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:18:01PM +0530, Rony wrote: >When low cost laptops are sold, they come with a disclaimer that "it has >linux pre-loaded which is free so it has limitted functionality until >another operating system is installed". Does it imply that linux being a >free os will never have the full functionality of a 'paid' os?
Because the sheep cannot open their PowerPoint files on them. Yes, yes, I know about Openoffice, but that is the perception. Besides, the way MS owns and holds the file formats a secret (XML? Ha! More likely to be a binary dump inside an <MS /> tag) OOo cannot keep up and be 100% compatible. Hell, *MS* can't keep up. -- Satya. http://www.thesatya.com/ S met ing's hap ening t my k ybo rd . . -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
