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

In news:BANLkTikg5zmahXdCw++-BiH2nf5Cowhsvw@mail.gmail.com,
Wayne Borean <wborean@gmail.com> typed:
> I'll disagree with that. Windows didn't open the World.
> Unix did. Windows just imitated what Unix did, ten years
> later.
>
> Wayne

Umm, no. But you are entitled to your opinion.

HTH,

Twayne`

> 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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