Not that it's always true but mostly the reason that corporations are hacked and people contract viruses on their computers is failure to be more cautious ON_THE_PART_OF_THE_USER.
Be great to have a simple plug-in that worked for office on all platforms to simply read an open document formatted document.
The thing is that generally these sorts of things tend to have limited ability such as the ntfs mount kernel extension for Mac OS X in which you can only read from an ntfs volume.
In general, my point is that microsoft like limiting people like how they limited kai from working at google full-time.
Hello I am new here, I am actually from linuxsucks.org as user, earthsnake.
The thing about openoffice is that it is a great, powerful, open-source program that has many features that works much better than ms office (I am not going to go into detail). The thing is that people seem to have this common perception that what is more "commercially accepted" is the better product. Ms products have become engrained deep into the cogs of the entire IT industry. It is hard to find an average person these days that does not run a version of the Windows Operating system on their computer. Therefore I think that many people will check out openoffice ONLY if it is more advertised, I am the average customer, say, twenty, not interested in IT particularly. You get a nice advert up saying how much stabler GNU and open source products like openoffice are over ms products, the guy would probably at least download and try it, or at least go to the website! I think these things need more exposure. And also, for people with disabilities, open office is an open source product; I'm sure it'll develop to do these sort of things rather quickly:)
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I WANT IT NOW! But then again the other components of the machine wouldn't really be able to keep uo so it isn't the best thing ever made.
Not that it's always true but mostly the reason that corporations are hacked and people contract viruses on their computers is failure to be more cautious ON_THE_PART_OF_THE_USER.
I want to see the first reports of how well these guys do.
:D
Someone please post the appropriate link when it becomes available!
Thanks.
Oh and.... the golden combo of Ubuntu running Fluxbox would kickass running that app.
Although I would kill to see a FreeBSD version.
"I'd love to know what 'The most thorough beta tester' means... lol"
Lol, me two.
Be great to have a simple plug-in that worked for office on all platforms to simply read an open document formatted document.
The thing is that generally these sorts of things tend to have limited ability such as the ntfs mount kernel extension for Mac OS X in which you can only read from an ntfs volume.
In general, my point is that microsoft like limiting people like how they limited kai from working at google full-time.
Yes this is true.
.. sue me if you don't like it :D
Microsoft like to keep things on their playing field, in this case... their document format.
Sorry if I went a bit off topic but I thought it was neccesary to say that
And plus I'm kinda lost in this place.. it's so... sprawling unlike Linuxsucks, lol. But I'm getting to like it.
Hello I am new here, I am actually from linuxsucks.org as user, earthsnake.
:)
The thing about openoffice is that it is a great, powerful, open-source program that has many features that works much better than ms office (I am not going to go into detail). The thing is that people seem to have this common perception that what is more "commercially accepted" is the better product. Ms products have become engrained deep into the cogs of the entire IT industry. It is hard to find an average person these days that does not run a version of the Windows Operating system on their computer. Therefore I think that many people will check out openoffice ONLY if it is more advertised, I am the average customer, say, twenty, not interested in IT particularly. You get a nice advert up saying how much stabler GNU and open source products like openoffice are over ms products, the guy would probably at least download and try it, or at least go to the website! I think these things need more exposure. And also, for people with disabilities, open office is an open source product; I'm sure it'll develop to do these sort of things rather quickly