So why you claimed two year ago on the front page of transgaming.com that it will be open sourced as soon that enough user will subscrive to monthly subcriptions? So it was a lie? Also, since the source is mostly available, it's possible to use regular wine to complete the missing parts of wineX/cedega. You even offer Source tar.gz on the website. I know one project, ( I give no link here, you understand why) who already achieved a legal free software build of Cedega whithout breaking anything important. So it's totally ridiculous to talk about "piracy" of Cedega. Transgaming must accept the rules of the games: you can always fork when there a important need to fork. I know that in this case it's about the end-user binary containing some proprietary code, making it in the whole proprietary, but Transgaming is certainly not in a stong position of suing "pirate" users because they themself "pirated" regular Wine (before license changes), and regular Wine programmer changed their license so that it's not possible anymore for Transgaming to proprietarise regular wine software.
By the way, I'm a subscriver, so I still believe that it worth it, especially with 2d games that don't require non-working 3d drivers. Like others people says, it's good for playing games plaged with cd copy protection crapware. However, Transgaming seems more interested in Mac and Pc games than playing under Gnu/Linux lately. Two years since the last games, Kohan, is pathetic. It's not even playable anymore under recent distributions like SuSe 9.1 unless major tweaking.
When you save your file under almost all MSO versions as a old version of MSO, MSO will simply save the file as a rtf, and even here, MSO don't generate 100% correct rtf code. Under OO, everything is saved as XML, wich much more compatible and far less troublesome.
Unless you expect to code XML manually, in this case I wish you good luck.
''The very FIRST issue you have with OpenOffice, whether it's a formatting issue, file conversion, or other imcompatiblity, will cost MORE than Microsoft Office in the loss of productivity and IT staff.``
That`s not true: 95% of the workers will be okay after just a hour. The other 5% will surely will not cost 170$ by people for technical support. Anyway, this 5% is not too really good with MS office anyway. And for others incompatibilities, there are far less incompatibility between MSO and OO than between different versions of MSO.
Not sure. I have installed for relatives and knowlenge more than one hundred gnu/linux bases computer, mainly SuSe, Mandrake and (long time ago) Corel. And that's not counting that every computer where I work(as administrator/it: www.uinm.qc.ca) runs SuSe. Imagine that each tech could convince just the third of my gnu/linux installation base.That's certainly much more than 1% of the total population.
I doubt the validity of these benchmark: unless the radeon 9550 is radically different than 9600 pro (which I own), the 9550 should destroys in any benchmark test the nvidia 5200 fx(which I also own). 5200 is in fact just a little bit faster than a gf4mx440.They are two very low-end by today standard. 9600 (and so is 9500) is a mid-range card. So why in most test the 5200 got better result than 9550? Even more,I'm not even sure than 9550 exist. I know for sure 9500 and regular 9600, but these two are two close in performance for worthing a half '50 version.
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So why you claimed two year ago on the front page of transgaming.com that it will be open sourced as soon that enough user will subscrive to monthly subcriptions? So it was a lie? Also, since the source is mostly available, it's possible to use regular wine to complete the missing parts of wineX/cedega. You even offer Source tar.gz on the website. I know one project, ( I give no link here, you understand why) who already achieved a legal free software build of Cedega whithout breaking anything important. So it's totally ridiculous to talk about "piracy" of Cedega. Transgaming must accept the rules of the games: you can always fork when there a important need to fork. I know that in this case it's about the end-user binary containing some proprietary code, making it in the whole proprietary, but Transgaming is certainly not in a stong position of suing "pirate" users because they themself "pirated" regular Wine (before license changes), and regular Wine programmer changed their license so that it's not possible anymore for Transgaming to proprietarise regular wine software.
By the way, I'm a subscriver, so I still believe that it worth it, especially with 2d games that don't require non-working 3d drivers. Like others people says, it's good for playing games plaged with cd copy protection crapware. However, Transgaming seems more interested in Mac and Pc games than playing under Gnu/Linux lately. Two years since the last games, Kohan, is pathetic. It's not even playable anymore under recent distributions like SuSe 9.1 unless major tweaking.
from http://www.shinux.org/ It looks like debian-based from the text. Here a in french the website text that violate GPL and a english translation of the first case. Clearly, GPL give you the right to sell a distribution under another name. The only part possibly not GPL is the setup tool: however it appear to came from Debian, nothing fancy added here. C'est gratuit dans les cas suivants : It's free(as in beer) in these cases: Your're a customer: Shinux is downloadable freely and you dispose of a unlimited usage. You can copy and modifiate as you like, but you cannot sell it (even under a different (distro) name. The modified version could be distributed after a registration to addon@shinux.org. Vous êtes particulier : la version Shinux© est téléchargeable gratuitement pour une durée d'utilisation illimité. Vous pouvez le copier et le modifier à loisir mais vous n'êtes pas autoriser à le vendre (y compris sous un autre nom). La version modifiée peut être diffusée après validation auprès de l'adresse addon@shinux.org. Vous pouvez de ce fait contribuer à l'évolution de la Shinux*. Vous êtes une entreprise et vous souhaitez utiliser Shinux sur vos postes PC ou pour vos commerciaux, vous ne rentrez pas de la cas () : la licence est gratuite et illimité. Vous pouvez le copier et modifier la distribution à loisir mais vous n'êtes pas autoriser à la vendre (y compris sous un autre nom) La version modifiée peux être diffusée après validation auprès de l'adresse addon@shinux.org. Vous pouvez de ce fait contribuer à l'évolution de la Shinux*. Vous êtes un organisme de presse : Diffusion gratuite après demande à l'adresse (presse@shinux.org) pour validation de la version du logiciel en cours. Cas particulier : Vous êtes une usine, un distributeur de matériel (MP3, Disque Dur, Clés USB) ou de logiciels contactez nous pour voir comment diffuser une distribution spécifique à votre hardware à vos couleurs ou a vos besoins. * Ces droits concernent la distribution et les développements effectués pour ce produit. Certains logiciels restant sous leur licence d'origine (GPL).
When you save your file under almost all MSO versions as a old version of MSO, MSO will simply save the file as a rtf, and even here, MSO don't generate 100% correct rtf code. Under OO, everything is saved as XML, wich much more compatible and far less troublesome. Unless you expect to code XML manually, in this case I wish you good luck.
''The very FIRST issue you have with OpenOffice, whether it's a formatting issue, file conversion, or other imcompatiblity, will cost MORE than Microsoft Office in the loss of productivity and IT staff.``
That`s not true: 95% of the workers will be okay after just a hour. The other 5% will surely will not cost 170$ by people for technical support. Anyway, this 5% is not too really good with MS office anyway. And for others incompatibilities, there are far less incompatibility between MSO and OO than between different versions of MSO.
Judging from most comment, it's probable that a lot of slashdotter send messages straight from a crackhouse.
Not sure. I have installed for relatives and knowlenge more than one hundred gnu/linux bases computer, mainly SuSe, Mandrake and (long time ago) Corel. And that's not counting that every computer where I work(as administrator/it: www.uinm.qc.ca) runs SuSe. Imagine that each tech could convince just the third of my gnu/linux installation base.That's certainly much more than 1% of the total population.
I doubt the validity of these benchmark:
unless the radeon 9550 is radically different than 9600 pro (which I own), the 9550 should destroys in any benchmark test the nvidia 5200 fx(which I also own). 5200 is in fact just a little bit faster than a gf4mx440.They are two very low-end by today standard. 9600 (and so is 9500) is a mid-range card. So why in most test the 5200 got better result than 9550? Even more,I'm not even sure than 9550 exist. I know for sure 9500 and regular 9600, but these two are two close in performance for worthing a half '50 version.