Yes. Our company (7000+ employees) has migrated from MS Office to Open Office. Unfortunatly most comments in the beginning was negative. I do suspect that it was due to the transaction to a "new" program(s) and interface. People are used to use MS Office and with little to none real computer experience, it is scarry to try out "new stuff". Thus, everything new is dagerous and should be regarded as evil. Now, two years later, nobody reflects over the fact that we uses another office suite. The only problem that we have are some conversion from Excel to OO Calc.
To sum it up. If you got a user base with good common computer skills there should be no problems. Just remind them to keep an open mind. If you then can point out that by changing office suite to a free alternative, your company saves money and maybe your job are a bit safer, you should be homefree. Do not, however, engage in ideological arguements. That will only confuse, and poeple in general think any mid to big sized company are made of money...
...suggests that the bigbang might be a re-occuring event, when two membranes (read universes) collides. Hopefully we (they) don't escape to the one our universe collided with...
I often wounder if games on Mac would be at all if not for Marathon. I still remember my first glips of the Marathon demo and really thoght that, for the first time, there was hope for Mac. That was after I've played Doom till my fingers was numb. Marathon felt fresh. New. Like much on Mac does compared to other OS:es *choff*Windows*choff*.
Yes, it is good news. The question is how much influence they'll have in reality. WIPO seems to have quite a few members, and no small ones either. Check out this document (pdf).
No, I guess not. The problem is that Half Life 2 is using Direct X. And porting it to Open GL is a huge task. The customerbase that would buy the Linux version is to small to cover the costs.
If I had the skills, I would surely vouluntair to help out porting for free. Wouldn't that be something, to have a Linux Game Porting community, helping software companies port to Linux?
Anyhow, it would be a very nice thing to have both Doom 3 and Half Life 2 for Linux, then I wouldn't need the secondary NTFS-formated hard drive.
Couldn't have said it better myself. We Fedora Core (1,2,3) users that are happy never, or seldom, complain. We all use our distro of choise and are quite happy with it. If you're not happy with distro X then change to Y or Z. Don't blame the distro-maker for a distro that don't fit YOUR individual needs.
Remember that this is our strenth, not weakness; the flora of choise!
I am not quite sure what state the infrastructure of Iraq is in, but I guess that fresh water, electricity and roads comes higher on the priority list.
"Hey, someone is blocking.iq!" "Hey, someone is blocking our watersupply!"
Why is this modded as insightful? RTFA. The first page states just this. There are other options, but none worked with MS Project, according to the article.
There are alternatives to Nvidia. No one is forcing you to use Nvidia hardware. And I'm not only thinking about ATI. If you want TV-out, there are XGI and even Matrox. The question is if Nvidia enforce the same on the Linux-drivers?
There are probably no study in the world that could convince RIAA that P2P is good for business. They've made up their minds. BUT, it might convince lawmakers to whink twise, and it shows the common man what they already know: if you want something that is good, you'll pay for it. If you got a broad selection to sample, you'll more likely find something YOU like.
"None of these processors require a cooling fan, which means that the PC can be substantially quieter than other computers based on processors requiring cooling fans."
Anyone know how they plan to cool the CPU? Passive or active cooling? I am not an expert on VIAs CPUs at all. Hopefully they wont be as bad as AMDs first 1GHz...
And are there any cases ready to deliver, that support this new "standard"?
...to XFree86 but I don't see them making any new friends by doing this kind of thing. As soon as alternatives are more mature, XFree86 will feel the heat.
Yes, I do agree with parent. The main problem, as I see it, is that the project seems to focus on a) look/feel like Windows/MacOS and b) adding new features instead of optimizing the code in the source tree. Letem take a look on what they have, and make it totally awsome. Then add new features.
Sure, I should probably stfu and contribut, but no one would really like my helloworld.cpp.;)
Couldnt they as easily blame the whole Windows community for all other viruses then? Why is it that when some one persone using OSS/GNU/whatever do something bad, the community as a whole gets the blame. But when someone programming a "usual" Win32 virus, there is always a lonesome teenage geek, looking for attention?
Now, I dont agree with DDosing www.sco.com for whatever reason. We all knew this was comming.
AFAICT, as long as you don't go to the US physicly you'll be fine. But the RIAA can tell your ISP, even though it's not located in USA, what you are doing. Maybe that will be enough for some ISP's to send you an email telling you to stop and that you are violating the EULA for the service. As most ISP's have a EULA for their services telling you not to use it for illegal purposes.
Notably, my ISP never asked me to sign a EULA, so I can probably do whatever I want, as long as I don't break any laws.
Pardon my spelling, I am from Sweden, a country know for their bad English.:)
" Why can't just the paranoid people block cookies?"
That about all non-geek/paranoid people out there with no real knowledge about cookies etc? Maybe this will raise the awareness of Joe User about all things happening without them ever notice or know about it, when they are sufing the web.
I might not be needed to be enforced in a law. But it might be a step towards enlightning "normal" users.
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Yes. Our company (7000+ employees) has migrated from MS Office to Open Office. Unfortunatly most comments in the beginning was negative. I do suspect that it was due to the transaction to a "new" program(s) and interface. People are used to use MS Office and with little to none real computer experience, it is scarry to try out "new stuff". Thus, everything new is dagerous and should be regarded as evil.
Now, two years later, nobody reflects over the fact that we uses another office suite. The only problem that we have are some conversion from Excel to OO Calc.
To sum it up. If you got a user base with good common computer skills there should be no problems. Just remind them to keep an open mind. If you then can point out that by changing office suite to a free alternative, your company saves money and maybe your job are a bit safer, you should be homefree.
Do not, however, engage in ideological arguements. That will only confuse, and poeple in general think any mid to big sized company are made of money...
...suggests that the bigbang might be a re-occuring event, when two membranes (read universes) collides. Hopefully we (they) don't escape to the one our universe collided with...
I often wounder if games on Mac would be at all if not for Marathon.
I still remember my first glips of the Marathon demo and really thoght that, for the first time, there was hope for Mac. That was after I've played Doom till my fingers was numb. Marathon felt fresh. New. Like much on Mac does compared to other OS:es *choff*Windows*choff*.
Yes, it is good news. The question is how much influence they'll have in reality. WIPO seems to have quite a few members, and no small ones either. Check out this document (pdf).
No, I guess not. The problem is that Half Life 2 is using Direct X. And porting it to Open GL is a huge task. The customerbase that would buy the Linux version is to small to cover the costs.
If I had the skills, I would surely vouluntair to help out porting for free.
Wouldn't that be something, to have a Linux Game Porting community, helping software companies port to Linux?
Anyhow, it would be a very nice thing to have both Doom 3 and Half Life 2 for Linux, then I wouldn't need the secondary NTFS-formated hard drive.
Couldn't have said it better myself. We Fedora Core (1,2,3) users that are happy never, or seldom, complain.
We all use our distro of choise and are quite happy with it. If you're not happy with distro X then change to Y or Z. Don't blame the distro-maker for a distro that don't fit YOUR individual needs.
Remember that this is our strenth, not weakness; the flora of choise!
I am not quite sure what state the infrastructure of Iraq is in, but I guess that fresh water, electricity and roads comes higher on the priority list.
.iq!"
"Hey, someone is blocking
"Hey, someone is blocking our watersupply!"
Why is this modded as insightful? RTFA. The first page states just this. There are other options, but none worked with MS Project, according to the article.
The 90's called, they want their clicks back.
There are alternatives to Nvidia. No one is forcing you to use Nvidia hardware. And I'm not only thinking about ATI. If you want TV-out, there are XGI and even Matrox.
The question is if Nvidia enforce the same on the Linux-drivers?
There are probably no study in the world that could convince RIAA that P2P is good for business. They've made up their minds.
BUT, it might convince lawmakers to whink twise, and it shows the common man what they already know: if you want something that is good, you'll pay for it. If you got a broad selection to sample, you'll more likely find something YOU like.
I'm sorry, RTFA!
"None of these processors require a cooling fan, which means that the PC can be substantially quieter than other computers based on processors requiring cooling fans."
Bah.
Anyone know how they plan to cool the CPU? Passive or active cooling? I am not an expert on VIAs CPUs at all. Hopefully they wont be as bad as AMDs first 1GHz...
And are there any cases ready to deliver, that support this new "standard"?
...to XFree86 but I don't see them making any new friends by doing this kind of thing. As soon as
alternatives are more mature, XFree86 will feel the heat.
And as for the Free in XFree86... Hmm..
Yes, I do agree with parent. The main problem, as I see it, is that the project seems to focus on a) look/feel like Windows/MacOS and b) adding new features instead of optimizing the code in the source tree. Letem take a look on what they have, and make it totally awsome. Then add new features.
;)
Sure, I should probably stfu and contribut, but no one would really like my helloworld.cpp.
Couldnt they as easily blame the whole Windows community for all other viruses then? Why is it that when some one persone using OSS/GNU/whatever do something bad, the community as a whole gets the blame. But when someone programming a "usual" Win32 virus, there is always a lonesome teenage geek, looking for attention?
Now, I dont agree with DDosing www.sco.com for whatever reason. We all knew this was comming.
Although I agree with you, this is not a kernel problem, but a distribution issue.
All after me: Linux is a kernel.
AFAICT, as long as you don't go to the US physicly you'll be fine.
:)
But the RIAA can tell your ISP, even though it's not located in USA, what you are doing. Maybe that will be enough for some ISP's to send you an email telling you to stop and that you are violating the EULA for the service. As most ISP's have a EULA for their services telling you not to use it for illegal purposes.
Notably, my ISP never asked me to sign a EULA, so I can probably do whatever I want, as long as I don't break any laws.
Pardon my spelling, I am from Sweden, a country know for their bad English.
Well, I think this is a Good Thing.
" Why can't just the paranoid people block cookies?"
That about all non-geek/paranoid people out there with no real knowledge about cookies etc? Maybe this will raise the awareness of Joe User about all things happening without them ever notice or know about it, when they are sufing the web.
I might not be needed to be enforced in a law. But it might be a step towards enlightning "normal" users.
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