[libreoffice-users] Re: Unix versus MS versus LibO

Timi,

Yes, I'm a journalist. Wrong, What actually opened things up has validity.
To quote Edmund Burke the British Statesman and Philosopher: Those who don't
know history are destined to repeat
it.<http://thinkexist.com/quotation/those_who_don-t_know_history_are_destined_to/346796.html>

If you don't understand how you got to where you are today, you won't know
why it doesn't work all that well.

I agree. A lot of small businesses depend upon Microsoft, a very
undependable company. And that is a problem for those businesses. There's a
long involved answer to this that would take pages to write. It all boils
down to one thing. A Non-Profit foundation is a more stable entity to get
your mission critical software from.

The Free Software movement offers the tools needed to replace Microsoft
Windows, tools that are mostly superior, and easier to use. The only problem
is that in most place it's impossible to buy them pre-installed on a
computer (except in the case of Apple) because Microsoft uses bundling
agreements to prevent competitors from entering the market place.

Even in countries where Microsoft has lost anti-trust cases, the countries
haven't done anything to address the issue. It's amazing how badly it has
been handled.

Why did you have to pay for your operating system? Obviously I don't know
where you live, but free operating systems are available worldwide, and they
have far better hardware support than Windows has (as a journalist one of my
jobs is installing operating systems to see how they work - installing
Windows XP is an exercise in frustration. Vista is worse. Linux is a
breeze). Simple. The reason you paid for your operating system is that
Microsoft won't let the hardware manufacturers sell computers with Linux
installed. Apple of course doesn't care, since they don't sell Windows
anyway.

Actually the true 'International' Office package is Libre Office, which
supports weird languages like Welsh, that Microsoft Office will never
support because there isn't enough demand. Or KOffice which has a similar
width of language support. Of course Welsh isn't weird if you speak and
write it, except to Microsoft.

Wayne
SemiAccurate



On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, <timi@iafrica.com> wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
>
> I think you are a journalist...... whether Unix opened the world
> communications or not has no
> validity.
>
> The International "Office" package is MS Office and not Unix Office... ok?
>
> I don't give a damn... I'm a business user not a geek...
>
> Right or wrong I have XP on my machine.... how you load and run Linux is a
> mystery.... No
> one has ever made it commercially viable for us dumb business users.
>
> Because of the obvious benefits of an open system like LibO with increased
> functionality, a
> great user interface and it's FREE then do not be surprised if dummies like
> me want to try
> LibO......
>
> I think LibO is generally great.....
>
> Somewhere you have missed the critical point and want to argue who invented
> international
> comms..... Fine if Unix did I salute them.... thank you...
>
> Question why is MS Office not Unix Office?
>
> Wayne get real..... split LibO into business users and people who want to
> talk but do
> nothing...
>
> I want LibO to kick MS butt... and right now there's no chance....
>
> Unix, word-perfect, mac..... (at the risk of pissing off all journalists in
> the world) that's not
> where it is! It's PC + MS + MS-Office.....
>
> If LibO makes a statement that us poor users of MS should play with LibO to
> find a better and
> free'er future then say so.... if I have to be Linux for LibO to work then
> say so... but don't give
> me kuk about who invented international comms.... perhaps I should have
> added
> "commerically viable" which would then exclude unix as a business contender
> except of
> course to acknowledge their role worldwide in host servers and network
> controllers... I just
> have a simple i5 laptop with XP (cos I detest Win 7) and MS-Office.... I
> also have OOo 3.3
> and LibO 3.3....
>
> I'm trying to break out.... your comments are not helping.
>
> I want LibO but unless someone sorts compatibility then I and (maybe) many
> others can't go
> with LibO... we don't have your luxuary of time to argue Unix versus
> MS..... and the benefits
> of Linux over windows etc.
>
> I had to pay for my operating system AND office system
>
> Sincerely
>
>
> timi

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