<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Pastor JW <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pastor_jw@the-inner-circle.org">pastor_jw@the-inner-circle.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Evidently you have never even used Ubuntu. I have never used an OS easier to<br>
use. My 80 plus year old mother has no trouble with it and neither does my 4<br>
year old grand-daughter. But then again maybe you are correct, they are more<br>
intelligent than a windoze user!</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please stop making the conversation personal. I have honestly written my opinion of the matter. See, I am not a Ubuntu/Windows evangelist. I have written not the way it works for me, but the way it does not work for my friends. I love Ubuntu, and more than a sort of prejudiced way (against MS). By your comments, I think you don't want to reach out to the Windows users anyway! </div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've never had a problem that wasn't addressed and fixed in a very short time<br>
unlike other OSes I have used.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes true. But my contention was that there are more issues than proprietary OSes. To be able to make Ubuntu/other Linux prevalent in the enterprise and at home, Ubuntu needs to cross the chasm. </div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Has always run fine here and infact how Skype ran on my factory installed<br>
Dell, caused several of my co-workers to dump what they had and install<br>
Kubuntu on their machines.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Skype now runs fine on Ubuntu, but an year ago it sure didn't run out of the box. Now I like to use Globe7, which does not work on Ubuntu for me. </div><div>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">It is, mostly because we constantly have so much windoze crud over here we<br>
have to waste time with.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, you are just stating the problem. If you're interested in considering a solution, you would be more willing to listen to criticism. </div><div><br></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
Maybe if we downgraded Open Office enough that it wouldn't read its own<br>
previous version's files it would then be as poor a product as Office 2007!<br></blockquote><div> </div></div>I love good/great software and I think Office 2007 is a gem of a software. So is MySQL and "Synaptic Package Manager". OpenOffice is good too, but still does not work with all office documents. OpenOffice is not as sleek. The point I am making is not just about OpenOffice. MS is vastly improving its software/OS with every release. As in case of Office, I understand that MS unilaterally "defines" the rules that others have to follow. To become competitive, the non-proprietary community has to unite. There is little I find about coming together/standardization of applications on various Linuxes (if someone knows kindly let us know), except <a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/">http://www.linuxfoundation.org/</a> . <div>
<br></div><div>-Amit </div>