interspersed comments Michael Scherer wrote:
more like an insult on the understanding of the university staff in question.Mmh, when you say some coutry, you speaks of this country just below Canada ?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).
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.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 ).IMHO, OpenOffice.org is good enough, just missing better db support (Access-alike) and video support in impress.
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 ?not sure about the hardware, but I know one university networking professor that was running hosting service through the university, to study the data transfer usage for the graphics communities web sites.
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 ).
he had 28 sites and was running at 16 gigabytes of data transfer a day. that says that the hardware couldn't have been that far behind. ( someone put pirated copy of a movie in the hard drives he was using, the university shut his study down.
If students see that Linux is not 'a black command line for psychotic computer freaks', it would change a lot.this I believe was what this thread was started to address, how to change the reputation and lack of information about linux.
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.
Jaqui
