I'll disagree with that. Windows didn't open the World. Unix did. Windows just imitated what Unix did, ten years later.
Wayne On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:04 AM, <t...@iafrica.com> wrote: > Hi Lorenzo, > > Much appreciate your reply. > > I think you maybe right and that's it's probably a Win XP related problem > with LibO! > > I asked a friend to test a copy of my Impress presentation (which lost the > links under XP) on > Linux which he did this morning and the links are still active (without > having to re-set) when > impress presentation is run under Linux. > > This just adds to my utter frustration with OOO and LibO..... > > If open-source products are to become a standard you simply cannot say OK > it runs on > Linux.... The majority of my business contacts would not even know where or > what Linux > was... let alone replace Windows with it... which to them is already > "geeky" enough. > > The wonderful freedom and exciting functionality of Open Source product is > going to get > marginalised IF it cannot challenge conventional systems..... it will > become a "them & us" > type environment and never be taken seriously by the business world unless > the brilliant > minds behind OOO and LibO realise that in order to prove product maturity > and reliability you > must be able to convert to their standard without problem, then it will > never be taken > seriously. > > I don't give a damn what came before MS..... Windows opened the world up to > communications where anyone can write a doc, send via email and more or > less guarantee it > can be read or viewed by any MS recipient.... I don't like it ( because of > monopoly) but that's > the bottom line. > > I would love to give the finger to my business partners by using LibO 24x7 > BUT I can't.... If > they can't read my output then I have no business! > > Surely LibO has the skill to sort out compatibility between the OOO/LibO > open standard > versus MS closed..... please! Where "we" are at the moment is the product > is more important > than the market it belongs in.... the market has the power to kill it! > > Do this and I can stop paying MS licence fees.... and so will millions of > other prople and LibO > will become the new standard Office for XP, WIN7 and Linux..... do not do > it and the > business community cannot support the product. > > To save time please I don't want emails saying well change to Linux.... My > answer is make > Linux business friendly and the standard operating system for PC's and ask > me again. > > Right now it's a sad day.... A brilliant product but missing the boat. > (just a personal view). > > Despite this I will continue to try and make LibO work for me and my > business.... Plse try and > treat compatibility issues as priority. > > > timi > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
