The competition factor with MSO is obviously the biggest one, however one big problem with OOo is upgrading.
In order to upgrade from one version to the next, you have to delete the old version, then install the new one. On top of that, the dictionary settings (if you managed to get them to work) are wiped if you didn't consciously make the effort to back them up.
This means that if Dell were to pre-install OOo on their computers, if a single more recent release has come out, it actually means more hassle for the user than if one weren't installed.
Firefox has set a good example for how to handle upgrades.
How does one become the Open Source Software evangelist at a practically 100% proprietary company?...That's like being a Christian Evangelist at a Mosque.
No. Being a Christian Evangelist at a Mosque would be like being an HP evangelist at Dell.
An OSS evangelist at Microsoft is more like a Christian Evangelist at an Anarchist convention.
...keep pests and malcontents out of your open source projects...
Every time I tried to join an open-source project, I'd find that I was cut out of the discussion, no matter how much I complained and accused people of trying to shut me out.
If I were able to get in there, I'd be able to rid those projects of these pesky people who won't respond to my constant requests!
Here is a well-cited argument by a physics professor at the University of Ottawa.
Essentially, it says that even if CO2 emissions cause global warming, their effects pale in comparison to those brought on by environmental catastrophes brought on by large-scale industrial operations such as clearcutting and war.
If an employer wants to show their appreciation, they can increase my pay, let me work fewer hours, or both.
If you drive your personal car to work, and every other other employee does, too, then as the company gets bigger the parking lot is so large that you spend 15 minutes, twice a day, just getting to your car and driving out of the parking lot.
That's 2.5 hours per week right there, for which you're not getting paid.
But if that's you're choice, then that's you're choice.
Knowing very little about either ReactOS or WINE, I can only presume the difference is goals.
The WINE project is for creating a windows emulator for Linux, and future releases of WINE will stay that way; ReactOS currently works best in an emulation environment, but aims to eventually work right out of the box, on any box.
It looks ideal for people like me: I know close to nothing about how to use Linux (much less administering it), so using WINE would mean learning Linux too, and finding new and creative ways of replacing the programs I've collected on my Windows box. This requires time and effort that I don't have.
Consider word processors instead of operating systems: If I'm a completely new computer user and want to start using OSS, it may be just as easy for me to learn LaTeX as to learn OpenOffice.org; however, if I'm already familiar with MS Office, it's much easier to learn OpenOffice.org than to learn a whole new way of creating documents.
2. Bill Gates has started a profoundly large charity foundation
Which funds initiatives that try to "cure" AIDS by paying for expensive, patented drug treatments for some people, instead of cheap generic equivalents that could reach a much greater portion of those who need the treatments.
While this will help many people with AIDS, it will also support the concept of Intellectual Property, which is central to those billions of dollars that Bill Gates has invested in Microsoft.
The Borg/Locutus icon is quite appropriate: there will always be some of it in you (even when you give away shitloads of money).
The problem is that omnibus bills (common in the U.S., prohibited in many countries) are long, complex, and in some cases, intentionally deceptive.
This idea of getting senators to read long, complex, and decpetive bills before they vote on them seems to be a roundabout way of trying to "solve" the problem. Why not just elminiate omnibus bills in the first place?
those movies were made when men were MEN and sheep ran scared, and those actors were truly made of steel, riding horses at a full gallop and able to hit a bad guy in the back of the head from 300 yards with a pistol with a four-inch barrel.
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The competition factor with MSO is obviously the biggest one, however one big problem with OOo is upgrading.
In order to upgrade from one version to the next, you have to delete the old version, then install the new one. On top of that, the dictionary settings (if you managed to get them to work) are wiped if you didn't consciously make the effort to back them up.
This means that if Dell were to pre-install OOo on their computers, if a single more recent release has come out, it actually means more hassle for the user than if one weren't installed.
Firefox has set a good example for how to handle upgrades.
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What this really represents is $1,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000!
That's just frickin' huge!
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No. Being a Christian Evangelist at a Mosque would be like being an HP evangelist at Dell.
An OSS evangelist at Microsoft is more like a Christian Evangelist at an Anarchist convention.
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No, no, no.
I want Linux Operating System installed on my computer, not Linux Factory!
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So much for those Bollywood jokes on Conan!
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Every time I tried to join an open-source project, I'd find that I was cut out of the discussion, no matter how much I complained and accused people of trying to shut me out.
If I were able to get in there, I'd be able to rid those projects of these pesky people who won't respond to my constant requests!
Signed,
RealGrouchy.
Here is a well-cited argument by a physics professor at the University of Ottawa.
Essentially, it says that even if CO2 emissions cause global warming, their effects pale in comparison to those brought on by environmental catastrophes brought on by large-scale industrial operations such as clearcutting and war.
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If you drive your personal car to work, and every other other employee does, too, then as the company gets bigger the parking lot is so large that you spend 15 minutes, twice a day, just getting to your car and driving out of the parking lot.
That's 2.5 hours per week right there, for which you're not getting paid.
But if that's you're choice, then that's you're choice.
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Knowing very little about either ReactOS or WINE, I can only presume the difference is goals.
The WINE project is for creating a windows emulator for Linux, and future releases of WINE will stay that way; ReactOS currently works best in an emulation environment, but aims to eventually work right out of the box, on any box.
It looks ideal for people like me: I know close to nothing about how to use Linux (much less administering it), so using WINE would mean learning Linux too, and finding new and creative ways of replacing the programs I've collected on my Windows box. This requires time and effort that I don't have.
Consider word processors instead of operating systems: If I'm a completely new computer user and want to start using OSS, it may be just as easy for me to learn LaTeX as to learn OpenOffice.org; however, if I'm already familiar with MS Office, it's much easier to learn OpenOffice.org than to learn a whole new way of creating documents.
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Did anyone else read that as "3D IRL"?
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As if the editors need to be told this by an Ignorant Aardvark!
Only if you're a neuroscientist, too.
I'm don't really consider myself a neuroscientist, but I do hit random people on the head and record their reaction.
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I hear this one.
Once I used an open-source hammer to fix my front doorframe, and now RMS owns my whole house!
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Intellectual Proprietor?
You know, one of those terms that is composed of two words, neither of which apply to the situation?
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Freud called. He wants his slip back.
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Which funds initiatives that try to "cure" AIDS by paying for expensive, patented drug treatments for some people, instead of cheap generic equivalents that could reach a much greater portion of those who need the treatments.
While this will help many people with AIDS, it will also support the concept of Intellectual Property, which is central to those billions of dollars that Bill Gates has invested in Microsoft.
The Borg/Locutus icon is quite appropriate: there will always be some of it in you (even when you give away shitloads of money).
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The problem is that omnibus bills (common in the U.S., prohibited in many countries) are long, complex, and in some cases, intentionally deceptive.
This idea of getting senators to read long, complex, and decpetive bills before they vote on them seems to be a roundabout way of trying to "solve" the problem. Why not just elminiate omnibus bills in the first place?
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Traditionally, it's been solved a fight to the death.
This system seems to be working well, as the judgements have never been appealed.
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Yeah, but from a few years out, how certain would we be that it would actually hit us?
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Doesn't the U.S. still control 50% of the world's resources/economy/something?
I'd say it'd be in their interest to protect the world, because they've got the most to lose.
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I would think that scientists are already suffering, given the current administration's bias against facts.
Therefore, we need an aid program for scientists!
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Uphill. Dont' forget uphill!
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You don't, but that's because you're not doing it right.
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You'll have to coordinate that between the parties involved; a computer can't solve that for you.
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