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

Arpanet. I was using the net before the 'web' existed. So were a lot of
people, and it, and all the documents on it were made, and driven by Unix.

Wayne
SemiAccurate


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Twayne <TWAYNE@twaynesdomain.com> wrote:

> 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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