Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO Impress and Audio.... Is XP the culprit?

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, <timi@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
>
>
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