OpenOffice/LibreOffice
Discussed OpenOffice in that may have issues with finer points of formatting.
This could be an issue when trying to convince organizations to install Linux
on the desktop.
Downloaded and installed LibreOffice from LibreOffice site on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
following discussion of. Seems to work Ok side-by-side OpenOffice. Only issue
in install was instructions, which said right click one of the folders and then
would automatically get Terminal up. Only way I could see was to install via
command line after unzipping install files. LibreOffice command line
instructions given worked out ok.
Suggested UK Government fork its own version of OpenOffice to assist in moving
to Linux Desktop.
FOSS Licences
Also discussed OSI licences. Seems to me that having two Microsoft OSI approved
licences could be seen as licence prolification. Also discussed whether or not
some OSI and FSF licences which allowed to turn code into closed source did in
fact contradict the ethos of FOSS.
32 bit programs on 64 bit machine
Some doubts expressed about this. However would seem that not an issue.
Mark Elkins
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