On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 23:50 +0100, pavithran wrote:
> 2009/6/14 Phillip Chandler <phillip.chandler@???>:
> > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 13:58 +0100, John Cooper wrote:
> >
> > As an MS user, O/S and software, I can tell you, hand on heart and my £20 in the pot,
> > that OO is more bloated than MS Office, so quit trying to con me that its not, Ive done the
> > homework on my machine, and if needed can come along and demonstrate.
> > The lot of you can sprout your big fancy dictionary rubbish all day.
> >
> > Heres what you do. Go into synaptic, select all of the OO progs, and
> > just see the total MB at the bottom that your system is going to remove.
> > I can tell you that MS Office is, at worst, only 2/3 the size.
> >
>
> How really cares about 20 -100 MB difference these days ? Can't you
> afford a 20 GB hard disk :P
I do, when I have a 30 gig HDD, and I have to listen to the Debian
mentality of "Use xyz or pee off back to windows.", Ive had this from a
diehard.
> > I had my watch counting the seconds that it took to load OO writer, then
> > did the same with MS Word under Crossover, and it was definitely more
> > than 5 seconds, which might not sound a lot, but its the fact.
> >
> Please use windows. There is no future for crossover or wine . Both of
> them will break the machines. We dont want people complaining my so
> and so game crashed the system .. ubuntu sucks .. WTF
Why should I use windows ? Crossover works great for me !
> > But not everyone
> > has the latest and greatest hardware, and sure dont have the obvious
> > funds that you may have to upgrade. Freedom of choice only works so far,
> > XP Office works faster and better for me under linux, than OO.
> >
> FYI I come from India (3rd world :P ).. and many of us are happily
> using Open Office . I am also glad to say that many corporates are
> removing MS office since OO satisfies their basic needs .
> > expected to use it with linux. Debian users might think that "Real Linux
> > Users use FOSS, and nothing else", but I dont.
> Agree , After all it's your machine , time and resources and finally
> its you who has to gain from the productivity the machine gives .
> I also agree that OO has long way to go . Let's help OO and I wish all
> of us post feature requests and file bugs to the Quality assurance
> team .
>
> My small opinion on OO: Here is a project which is trying to mimic a
> M$ product which is closed. How do you expect .doc or .docx files to
> work perfectly ? But still OO is trying to do its level best . Be
> happy that you are freely (cost and freedom) able to open a
> propreitary standard doc,ppt etc and are able to edit it (not
> perfectly) and save it in the same format,export to free formats like
> ODP and other formats like PDF,HTML etc .
>
> As LUG people it's our duty to spread the usage of Open documents (ODP
> ) . Also provide a PDF file for non - OO users as non-OO users dont
> deserve to edit the file :P
>
> > If I want a stable, secure system with dvd playback and an office that I
> > dont have to scratch waiting for it to load, and I have to pay whatever
> > to get that, then I will willingly pay for the privilege. But then a
> > system is only as secure as the competence of the end user.
>
> >> By trying to improve this they need our help. Your comments will prevent
> >> people even trying open office as it is not as bad as you make out. OO
> >> is at v3, MS office is v10 (or 11?). It will improve the more people and
> >> companies use it, but it is far from crap.
> >>
> Guys please stop crying over the list . Start complaining and file
> bugs. The open office quality assurance team needs you desparately .
> If you really care about Free as in Freedom .. and if you want things
> to improve in free software go to
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html
>
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> > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views
> May be confidential ? LOL dude you are posting to a *mailing list* :P
> And please use short footers.
> Regards,
> Pavithran
>
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