On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:20 +0200, Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
> Hello Ian,
> Although these things are hard to get (one of my friend who is totally
> foreign to FLOSS and OOo matters tells me to contact OEMs repeatedly :-)
> )
Its rather surprising that OEM retailers will pay $10 for MS Works when
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On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 07:48 -0400, Chad Smith wrote:
> On 10/18/05, Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Still want to claim that OOo uses less resources?
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> OOo uses a lot more resources - and it's slower. No questions there. It
> amazes me how open source promoters talk about
Hi
I was wondering if everyone could take a look at the new test
bittorrent site at http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/testsite/
This has a much simpler method of selecting downloads, and shows the
torrents of additional languages. I hope to move the bittorrent site
to this soon, but as
Hello all,
Microsoft has said that they will support OpenDocument in MS Office if
there is customer demand for it.
The OpenDocument Fellowship has started a petition for Microsoft to
support OpenDocument. To show that there /is/ demand for OpenDocument:
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/pet
On 10/19/05, Tom Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >Let me explain how keeping an existing office suite) would indeed
> cost less than OpenOffice.org.
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> >1) The existing infrastructure is already in place.
This can be handled by cascading servers to upgrade software
> automatically i
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/10/opendoc-plug-in-for-ms-
office-users.html
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On 10/18/05, Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Still want to claim that OOo uses less resources?
OOo uses a lot more resources - and it's slower. No questions there. It
amazes me how open source promoters talk about MS Bloat, when MS Office is
smaller, lighter, and faster than OOo.
>
Hello Ian,
Although these things are hard to get (one of my friend who is totally
foreign to FLOSS and OOo matters tells me to contact OEMs repeatedly :-)
) I'd like to mention two initiatives on the OEM that seem to work :
-we have an OEM project: http://distribution.openoffice.org/oem/
-several n
I've been a general user on systems for over 25 years. The only one
that ever behaved as "it should" was the Mac. That's because it was
intuitive. Moreover, you could buy, load, and use nearly every
application without RTFM. Load and Go. There was an occasional
reference to a "cheat sheet"
