...and if it didn't change with every new version.
Re:Sacrificing Security for Freedom Breeds Tyranny
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Looked from another point of view, those countries are (slowly) converting to a democracy and an open economy (e.g. eastern europe joining EU). Those countries can now learn from their past to hopefully never have to go through that again. The US on the other hand has never faced the horid mistake of allowing a dictators will. For the rest of the worlds own good I hope the US will go in a dark age. The entire world is currently way out of balance with only one nation ruling it. In a way, the world is currently run by a dictator, which is entirely against the nice words of freedom...
Setting up a Unix system as a novice can be difficult, but that counts for Windows too. Anyway, every desktop environment is quite similar and it shouldn't be too difficult to switch.
An application I miss though is a CAD program.
If people are looking for compatibility with their MSOffice documents, then they'll never switch to an open office sollution. The file format is closed and proprietary and changed now and then to force people to buy the latest expensive version. One should just make the switch and have the advantage of your documents being stored in an open standard, still readable in let's say ten years. There are far more advantages in switching to an open alternative, than the sole disadvantage of loosing compatibility with something that isn't even an internationally recognised standard.
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...and if it didn't change with every new version.
Looked from another point of view, those countries are (slowly) converting to a democracy and an open economy (e.g. eastern europe joining EU). Those countries can now learn from their past to hopefully never have to go through that again. The US on the other hand has never faced the horid mistake of allowing a dictators will. For the rest of the worlds own good I hope the US will go in a dark age. The entire world is currently way out of balance with only one nation ruling it. In a way, the world is currently run by a dictator, which is entirely against the nice words of freedom...
Setting up a Unix system as a novice can be difficult, but that counts for Windows too. Anyway, every desktop environment is quite similar and it shouldn't be too difficult to switch. An application I miss though is a CAD program.
If people are looking for compatibility with their MSOffice documents, then they'll never switch to an open office sollution. The file format is closed and proprietary and changed now and then to force people to buy the latest expensive version. One should just make the switch and have the advantage of your documents being stored in an open standard, still readable in let's say ten years. There are far more advantages in switching to an open alternative, than the sole disadvantage of loosing compatibility with something that isn't even an internationally recognised standard.