KOffice vs. OpenOffice

[Valter Mura]

Il lunedì 29 settembre 2008 16:40:30 Derek Broughton ha scritto:
> Valter Mura wrote:
> > Il lunedì 29 settembre 2008 14:12:53 Derek Broughton ha scritto:
> >
> > Oh, yes, you're right. But explain me which is the reason why "in my
> > country" (I don't know in yours), when the average customer cannot choose
> > between an open source OS and a propietary one. If you go in a shop, the
> > 100% (except for MAC systems) of the systems are Windows...
>
> Then demand Linux.  100% seems awfully high - back when I used to by my
> systems from a friend who built PCs in his basement, I could have had Linux
> if I wanted (in fact, I think I _did_ get my first linux CD from him).
> Unfortunately, he's now 2000km away :-)  It shouldn't be too difficult to
> find places like his, though.

Yes, I understand it...  :-) , also here I can find single, private 
technicians who set up a good Linux-based system.
But I'm referring to "average customer"..., people that go to a supermarket to 
buy a comp.
This is a problem of informatics culture and education. Many people don't even 
know that there are different possibilties. They know there is Windows, IE, 
MSN and so on. Office suite? obviously, cracked MS Office! this is not the 
way to proceed, not, at least in the 2008...
I'm not pointing my finger against Microsoft (well, many things are to say, 
but...), but against (my) Government.
MS is doing its job...
How do Government protect citizens against the overwhelming power of Uncle 
Bill?
But, sorry, this thread is becoming too OT and it's better to stop it here.

>
> >> >> not sure about the version supplied by ubuntu, but the windows
> >> >> version does. it starts blazing fast since it's always preloaded, and
> >> >> even when not, switching application is fast.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, if you run "ooffice" OOo opens without starting a doc. In this
> >> > way OOo is faster...
> >>
> >> What a joke!  OO takes _minutes_ to open most docs I get off the net.
> >
> > What do you mean? Docs stored in the Internet? Perhaps your connection is
> > slow, I use OpenOffice.org with no problems and without these kind of
> > delays...
>
> No, actually I was thinking of spreadsheets on my own laptop, coming from a
> server I'm testing.  I just tried to open a 93 byte .csv file with OO, and
> it took 95 seconds just to get to the point of prompting me for a
> login/password (which it shouldn't be doing, anyway).

Hmmm I think this is odd. Why don't you open an issue in Openoffice.org site? 
Maybe you could help them or you'd find something similar.

http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html (registration 
needed)


Regards,
-- 
Valter
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