What I feel like is that there is the mistake to think that a netbook is an internet appliance, but further from this. Basically Ubuntu is replacing free and open source software for non-free web applications.
Telling people to just use Google Docs, is basically replacing applications from free to closed that might not work at all. Have you ever tried to open a complex document on google docs, with headers, index and cross reference. Or even images... it end up becoming a big mess. Ipad push the idea of using a netbook as an internet appliance but in reality, a netbook is more like a second computer for on-the road. You still need the full functionality of a desktop system. Personally I use OOo for presentations, I will definetly not use Google Docs for that, presentations in cloud systems are a real mess. I would probably recomend users to skip Ubuntu from now on, I never really liked this distro to start with. On 2/8/10, Mark C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:02:04 -0800, NoOp wrote: > >> On 02/08/2010 04:09 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: >>> just passing this along - I'd say from everything I'm reading that this >>> is all still way high up in the air...but here is the scuttle-but of >>> the day >>> >>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/few-days-ago-we-shared-word- > that.html >>> >>> Drew >> >> Don't rely on scuttle-but, instead just follow along and/or comment at: >> <https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-une- > applications> > > no scuttle-butt; nothing to follow. It's a done deal. Ubuntu UNR will > drop OOo with version 10.04. It's been posted for awhile; I posed the > article as it appeared on /. late last week here and > comp.openoffice.questions. Don't have the actual article in front of > me. Power users will just get OOo from Synaptic. I worry about first- > time Ubuntu users (which is one of the target audiences for Netbooks it > seems); will they even know OOo exists? I fear out userbase will take a > hit based on this decision. How big will be interesting to try and > gauge. Check out the article at <http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/ > openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
