-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Scherer wrote: >>Hello? quicktime movie in powerpoint? Do you never give presentations >>which need animations? Engineering shops need this. > > I'm sorry, I 'm just a student. And I do presentations, but never so > sophisticated. > > >>DivX could also be useful in this regard, and I am sure there are >>business applications for being able to play encrypted DVDs you own >>(training material). > > You can read this on linux. You canread quick time, you can read real player > and flash. > You can even read dvd. > But the point is to develop a opensource dvd player is not possible, thanks to > movie maker. >
Not impossible, just illegal in some countries. It's legal here (for example). > But what about a closed source dvd player, a commercial one. It seems that the DVD makers don't want linux users to buy DVDs. They don't make it possible for linux users to legally watch any DVDs in some countries. > There is no freeware dvd player on windows, even if everyone use cracked ones. Most DVD drives come with DVD playing software for windows. > > So , what is missing ? > A office suite ? > There is good ones, and not only opensource. > Applixware, Hancom office, all theses. > > You can read proprietary format, thanks to commercial plugins. > > Of course, you must pay, but, Microsft Office, Photoshop aren't freeware.... IMHO, OpenOffice.org is good enough, just missing better db support (Access-alike) and video support in impress. > > And of course, it may cost more to have a trained Unix sysadmin, but someone > who use windows in order to underpay his admin is stupid. > > > >>If business didn't need multimedia, Windows Media player wouldn't be in >>Windows 2000 Pro. > > Maybe because Microsoft tried to make his software become standard, so, what > is the point of not giving WMP on Windows 2000, if it is avaliable on the > other versions. W9x software runs on W2000, no ? don't ned any recompilation, > i think... > Depends. Some needs to be changed heavily. > And, the same idea could applies to windows95 and personal Web server. Even if > it not installed by default, Microsoft ships a webserver with windows 9x. > Now, i don't think that a home user needs a web server, especially this one... > So, it is not because it is shiped by default that there is a strong need. > Winmine.exe and sol.exe are shipped with every versions of windows, don't they > they are so important for business. You could have fooled most of our university admin staff ... Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE91SNXrJK6UGDSBKcRAgkfAKCM+NLH0RtCzBAWqWPnH9namR/AQwCbBHWE kS/HuSnz3/pQoCLZ296UUsE= =aSDf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
