Re: [LUG] ooo 2.0 vs staroffice 8 ? vs closed source

[Victor van Reijswoud]

And as Wire once told us, at a FOSS awareness conference (FCIT, MUK) FOSS is not necessarily free beer. But we also like free beer, or not! Victor  Prof Dr. Victor van Reijswoud B.P. 1474 Bujumbura - BURUNDI [P] +257 928246 [W] www.eacoss.org [B] open-africa.blogspot.com On 30 Aug 2006, at 18:19, Francis Musinguzi wrote: YES, Tell them; FOSS OYee !!!. I was also suprised by OO.org's abilty to near perfectly reproduce and transfer most of the MS Office formats. It also has the advantage of having default PDF (which MS is copying into the Office 2007 release) and XML export support, plus the future. (ODF) Support for the Open Document Format, which is being hyped as the next standard for document formating, is a big plus for OO.org. It should allow one to move documents from one proccesing suite to another regardless of architecture and user-specific formating. FOSS has the advantage of having more people listening and solving arising issues, in less time than closed source. There is even the advantage of "boxing" your implemenation (being paid for doing it quicker and support) while providing the source code for improvement. Most of the "Successful" software developers have discovered these benefits and now provide a boxed and open form of their products. FOSS keeps getting better and better. This what I would suggest for all serious FOSS developers in Uganda. Do not fret over copyright. Just simply provide a way of implementing it faster and providing stable support faster, while letting more heads tinker with and rid your software of bugs. If SuSE, Redhat and the like can capitalize on it why cant U ??? And as Wire once told us, at a FOSS awareness conference (FCIT, MUK) FOSS is not necessarily free beer. FRANCIS. ========================================================================== Ernest, B.M (AfriNIC - ZA) writes: out of curiosity, i decided to give staroffice 8.0 a try, and find out if it's worth the 80USD (compared to the free openoffice 2.0) after about a month, i can say that openoffice might be better than staroffice (apart from a few missing fonts - the proprietary ones i guess). where OO.org shines very well is importation of microsoft office documents. though not perfectly, it does much better at keeping them closer to their original than staroffice. so, why the 70 usd, when the free package is much better? e _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list LUG@linux.or.ug http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------

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