Small business. That should be our target. When they are first starting to come together, they have not yet enslaved themselves to a closed-source solution, they have little money with which to buy licenses, and they can ill afford to be caught pirating. Also, it's still small enough that you can advise the President/CEO/Founder directly. No incompetent middleman.
I know this will be a very unpopular comment here, but I think open source and GNU software are awesome but they're not always the right solution to every problem.
Actually that's the point of OSS: Use the right tool for the job. The OSS solutions make it easier to switch to a better tool if the current one isn't working for you.
Seeing as MS Office Pro costs $380 retail, you might be able to get a percentage of the budget savings set aside for bounties and/or donations (if not hire your own programmer outright) in order to address those features that MS really does do better than OOo.
Bleh. I find Amaya to be more of a lousy web browser than an HTML editor. I like KompoZer (bug-fix fork of the defunct Nvu, until Nvu's author finishes a replacement) and Quanta Plus.
But then, I am not a professional web developer (IANAPWD?) so take my vote with a grain of salt.
After this I genuinely believe that they are only being stupid about it because they know it is free - they somehow feel less important if they're given a tool that wasn't paid for.
Maybe you could lobby for StarOffice instead? It meets the requirement of having a cost ($70 per user, on up to 5 machines, IIRC). Since StarOffice and OpenOffice look virtually identical, you might be able to slip OpenOffice to the more basic users later.
If we go by that clause, NONE of the distros are free. You'd have to cut out a huge chunk of the Ubuntu distro, remove the entire non-free Debian archive, and I'm not even sure how to get it out of Fedora.
Hmmm. Wikipedia claims that in business, it 'cannibalize' is used to denote competing with yourself (more or less). I was using it in the context of 'eating members of one's own species' (auto manufacturers all being one species... but in retrospect, it might be more accurate to say they are all of the same genus or maybe even order).
That costs quite a bit more money than making software. You have to have somewhere to design and reasearch, and it might be difficult to find competent engineers not hampered by NDA's and non-compete clauses.
At $100,000 for a Tesla, I think Apteras ($30,000) or Zaps ($12,000) might be more economic choice. These people don't really need a performance company car.
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Small business. That should be our target. When they are first starting to come together, they have not yet enslaved themselves to a closed-source solution, they have little money with which to buy licenses, and they can ill afford to be caught pirating. Also, it's still small enough that you can advise the President/CEO/Founder directly. No incompetent middleman.
Bugzilla may be good, but it can't prevent an event that occurred before it was installed.
...it's easier for standards the facto to arise.
Sorry to be a grammar nazi. It's de facto.
I know this will be a very unpopular comment here, but I think open source and GNU software are awesome but they're not always the right solution to every problem.
Actually that's the point of OSS: Use the right tool for the job. The OSS solutions make it easier to switch to a better tool if the current one isn't working for you.
Seeing as MS Office Pro costs $380 retail, you might be able to get a percentage of the budget savings set aside for bounties and/or donations (if not hire your own programmer outright) in order to address those features that MS really does do better than OOo.
Turn all the servers into a render far^W^Wcluster full of virtual servers (including the Citadel).
For your competitors to use it they would need to customize it.
In ways you obviously don't need (otherwise you would have had it coded in in the first place.)
Ok, I think you are anticipating that something that is a convenience for you will be a necessity for your competition. That could work...
Bleh. I find Amaya to be more of a lousy web browser than an HTML editor. I like KompoZer (bug-fix fork of the defunct Nvu, until Nvu's author finishes a replacement) and Quanta Plus.
But then, I am not a professional web developer (IANAPWD?) so take my vote with a grain of salt.
After this I genuinely believe that they are only being stupid about it because they know it is free - they somehow feel less important if they're given a tool that wasn't paid for.
Maybe you could lobby for StarOffice instead? It meets the requirement of having a cost ($70 per user, on up to 5 machines, IIRC). Since StarOffice and OpenOffice look virtually identical, you might be able to slip OpenOffice to the more basic users later.
the next Windows OS (9, right?)
No, it'll be Windows OSX.
I prefer the etherkiller method. Much more subtle.
Anonymous Cowards, obviously.
RAM must be cheaper than ROM. Easier to upgrade the firmware, too.
A robot may not allow humanity to come to herm...
Who is this Herm and why can't humans meet him?
...Windows?
So that there are enough mod points left to mod me "Insightful" or "Funny"
I like to cyber-shop in cyberspace at Cyberguys.com
If we go by that clause, NONE of the distros are free. You'd have to cut out a huge chunk of the Ubuntu distro, remove the entire non-free Debian archive, and I'm not even sure how to get it out of Fedora.
gNewSense?
Hmmm. Wikipedia claims that in business, it 'cannibalize' is used to denote competing with yourself (more or less). I was using it in the context of 'eating members of one's own species' (auto manufacturers all being one species... but in retrospect, it might be more accurate to say they are all of the same genus or maybe even order).
You'd think it would cannibalize the competition's product lines, too. And that's usually a desireable thing.
Can a government ensure their sovereignty and verify that the software behaves correctly?
IMHO, the government doesn't have much need for gaming cards or their drivers.
That costs quite a bit more money than making software. You have to have somewhere to design and reasearch, and it might be difficult to find competent engineers not hampered by NDA's and non-compete clauses.
I would prefer aluminum anyways. It is more durable and (imho) it looks better.
At $100,000 for a Tesla, I think Apteras ($30,000) or Zaps ($12,000) might be more economic choice. These people don't really need a performance company car.
It's still Black Friday where I'm at...