1. There are several suppliers of OOo on CD/DVD. See
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom . Note that OOo
does not recommend or guarantee any of these organisations. Under the terms
of the licence it is legal to sell OOo. Some people charge ridiculous
amounts and/or expect you to register with usernames and passwords. Avoid
any supplier who requires either. Most of the suppliers only charge a small
amount to cover the cost of the media plus P&P.
2. Computer magazines frequently come with "free" CDs/DVDs. These often
contain a copy of OOo. Just make sure you buy a magazine relevant to your
Operating System.
3. Get someone - library, college, business - with a faster internet
connection to download the software and burn it onto a CD for you. Often a
couple of beers go a long way ;-)
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
"Paul Temple" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi (again - so soon?)
I kinda feel strongly about this so thought there's nothing quite like now.
I'm not claiming to be unique and haven't read the archives so sorry if this
idea is a repeat of someone else's - but even if it is it will just add
weight to the idea!!!
Here I am in the sticks (Dominican Republic), in the second largest town
(Constanza) in my Province (La Vega) and I'm downloading OO right now. And
that quaint little download thing in he bottom left hand corner of Chrome is
telling me that I only have 18 hours left to complete my download (assuming
he power lasts that long - if not I have to start all over again)!!!
To be blunt, this is ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now the OO developers can get very defensive and blame all sorts of things
but, hey, I'm a USER and 18 hours is what I'm having to cope with - I cannot
control what my nice (?) internet provider offers!!!!!!! It shouldn't be
so.
So let me look at what OO does that I think is inherited from most earlier
s/w. OO is built using a strategy or top level design that is aimed at
making a profit!!! Obviously, this is ridiculous as OO is free so it can't
and doesn't attempt to make a profit. So why design it along lines that are
aimed at profiting?
Why do I accuse OO of this? If we look at any other similar type of
offering, it's easier if we limit scope to a single product. So for want of
better, let me look at the Word Processor product, i.e Microsoft Word and
the OO Equiv. MS Word is also enormous. Why? Because if they sell
everything in one big chunk, an elephant, one has to pay a premium for all
those bits one never uses (because 99.9% of MS Word users never use all of
the product). But Microsoft won't sell just the parts you want because most
of us, like 99% of us (limting thought to those who don't use cracs), would
just buy parts and so down would plummet Microsoft profits!!!
But why should OO be worried if people wanted less of the OO functionality?
OO would lose no profit!!! To put it another way (admit it, you saw this
cmng!!!) - how do you eat an elephant? One chunk at a time!
So, thinking of cell phones, we all are now used to downloading "Apps" in
seconds. There's nothing quite like stealing, oops I mean sharing, someone
else's good idea. So why doesn't OO completely rethink, redesign and
rebuild its solutions. Why doesn't OO create tiny Apps, each comprising one
function or a few related functions, designed in such a way and to
sufficient standards such that each App integrates with each and all other
Apps for the same product. Depending on how the clever architects design
the overall solution strategy, one could have a core part that was needed,
just for basics, or one could do away with that (it's too obvious and
"normal") and instead insist (and mandate with standards) that each
component App be both stand-alone AND able to be integrated with all other
OO Apps (for a single product).
Now such a solution would allow each App to be downloaded in very little
time. A user such as I could choose just the Apps (s)he needs and be ready
to work in seconds, not in, let me see, oh, only 20 hours now!!!!!!!!!! Am
I really going backwards?
So please guys and gals, lets have a new OO, designed for the 21st Century,
using an Apps-focused architecture designed for rapid download of limited
user-selected functionality selected from a portfolio of 100% integrated
solutions (per product) and with integrated interfaces to link all OO
products.
Simple! Can I have it tomorrow please :-)
Cheers
Paulindr
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