Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

Hi :)
I think disdain is possibly closer than hatred.  I think bioth are quite far away from the reality 
though.  I think it's simply that people would rather develop tools that are more robust and less 
susceptible   to malware and slow-downs.  


I think once you start using OpenSource tools you begin to realise that MS seem to have 
deliberately built-in vulnerabilities and their slow-downs.  FOSS doesn't seem to suffer anything 
like as much, although a bit of "system rot" is inevitable in almost any system.  

I'm just installing Win7 on a handfull of machines and am able to make a couple of tweaks that 
prevent their "Virtual Memory" from getting so heavily fragmented.  In previous versions of their 
OS i have found it significantly reduces the slow-downs if you can do this early on.  On Win7 it 
takes an extra couple of clicks but it's still really easy.  I always wonder why the default is to 
set it to fragment as quickly as possible.  It's only with Win7 that their de-fragger tool can 
defrag system files such as the Virtual Memory (err that is Swap to Gnu&Linux geeks lol).  

Regards from 
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> To: Amit Choudhary <contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com>; users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Monday, 29 July 2013, 20:30
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3
>
>
> I certainly hope the primary motive for FOSS such as LO is not a disdain for 
> MS. I personally don't care how much money MS makes. I hope the LO 
> developers are motivated by a desire to produce a great product that can be 
> used worldwide. Hatred usually doesn't provide a very effective motive for 
> productive action.
>
> Virgil
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Amit Choudhary
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 10:47 AM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Amit Choudhary
> <contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Andrew Brown <andrewbr@icon.co.za> wrote:
> > > Hi Amit
> > >
> > > I understand where you are coming from, and the good news is, in your 
> > > favour, that MS in both it's O/S and office suite are losing market share 
> > > in a big way. Here's an article from Ubuntu founder and my countryman 
> > > Mark Shuttelworth on his take on MS and Ubuntu. I like his statement that 
> > > the no.1 bug in Linux has now been
 fixed/closed, in that MS no longer 
> > > dominates majority market share.
> >
> >
> > But the numbers don't lie. I checked MS revenues and profits on 
> > finance.yahoo.com and it doesn't look like MS is losing market share. MS 
> > losing share might be an illusion.
>
> Period Ending                                           Jun 30, 2012
> Jun 30, 2011       Jun 30, 2010
>
> Net Income Applicable To Common Shares $16,978,000       $23,150,000
>       $18,760,000  (All numbers in thousands)
>
> Regards,
> Amit
>
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