Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> OOo and OpenDocument both get a mention towards the middle of the article:
>
> Nigel McFarlane. "Firefox explorers." The Age. 22 Mar 2005.
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/21/253920087.html?oneclick=true
>
>
> ... "I'm staggered and close to o
Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 12:12 -0800, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
>
>
>>High School, in Portland, Oregon. IMHO, the day is only about 3
>>years away when people will wonder why they ever paid for an office
>>suite, just the way that people now wonder why they ever paid
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
Hi,
Sorry for not snipping, but I wanted to be able to preserve the full
context.
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:26, Chuck wrote:
> Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> > OOo and OpenDocument both get a mention towards the middle of
> > the article:
> >
> > Nigel McFarlane. "Firefox explorers." The Age. 2
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
>
Ian Lynch wrote:
> 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?
We need to replace these computers, and we want to go to x86 hardware
because it's cheap
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
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> 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.
Uhmm... it is definitely an OSI license. I don't know what you mean by
"standard". If you mean
>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.
>From my experience OOo is likely to recover a document that can't be opened
in word anymore rather than corrupt it, especially version 2.
With diff
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 12:12 -0800, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> High School, in Portland, Oregon. IMHO, the day is only about 3
> years away when people will wonder why they ever paid for an office
> suite, just the way that people now wonder why they ever paid for a
> browser. (I actually pai
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
... Currently, Microsoft's solution is to try to "buy" the
market by "lobbying" (bribing) local officials, giving its software
to some libraries and schools, and offering package deals to
governments like Thailand.
But that is not a sustainable busines
Hi Daniel,
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?
We need to replace these computers, and we want to go to x86 hardware
because it's cheaper. Since we
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Chuck wrote:
[...]
I think the problem is that nobody wants to be the manager who
recommended software that was later found out to have some
incompatibility with MS file formats, the format that 98% of the rest of
the business world uses.
Perhaps, but since there are severe inc
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 03:58 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> Also, remember that many IT departments have had the functional equivalent
> of an MS sales team working on the inside since 5 or 6 years ago. So they
> will be resisitant to other vendors / sources, but as Christian points out
> with
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:27, Chuck wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 12:12 -0800, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> >
> >
> >>High School, in Portland, Oregon. IMHO, the day is only about 3
> >>years away when people will wonder why they ever paid for an office
> >>suite,
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