> > 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). Mmh, when you say some coutry, you speaks of this country just below Canada ? This country who arrest people in some other country because they wrote a software to see the DVD they just bought ? Who may dare to make them angry ?
But, you are right, maybe a special distro for each country. Maybe a partnership with a local reseller ? > > There is no freeware dvd player on windows, even if everyone use > > cracked ones. > > Most DVD drives come with DVD playing software for windows. Yes, but this is the same as Winzip. Everyone wants to use THE dvd software everyone is talking about. All my room-mates use PowerDvd, even the one who have a licence for WinDVD. Some of them had probleme with WinDVD, some others wanted some fonctionnality. > IMHO, OpenOffice.org is good enough, just missing better db support > (Access-alike) and video support in impress. OpenOffice could be far better, as i stated before, it lacks templates ( out of the box, I had to take the one given by StarOffice5.2 ). And, it still need memory. I don't know if all business have very up to date with their hardware, but the ones i have seen didn't... But, maybe it doesn't matter, they may change their hardware at the same time they change the software... > Depends. Some needs to be changed heavily. Yes, but, only those who touch to the system, I think. > You could have fooled most of our university admin staff ... MMh, sorry, i don't understand. I will take this as a compliment. By talking of university, is the free software situation as bad in my old school ? We only had Windows NT, and some old sparc station. And some students in a engineer school in France were not happy about that situation, ( in their school ). If students see that Linux is not 'a black command line for psychotic computer freaks', it would change a lot. Even teacher don't know linux. I mean, they still believe that vim/emacs and gcc. Some still use vi ( have nothing against vi, but vim is far better ). This is not their faults, we all discover some new things about free software each days.. Software is not the only probleme, reputation is another one. Mick
