On Saturday 26 Dec 2009 00:15:34 Uri Even-Chen wrote: > OK, I'm trying to download Open Office now (version 3.11). The file > size is 150MB - it's huge!
This is expected given that it is an office suite and not a web-browser, which has a much more limited functionality built-in. I wouldn't expect a Microsoft Office download to be less of a burden, but most people buy (or copy) Microsoft Office on CDs/DVDs. According to http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html , MS Excel 5.0 took 15 MB of hard-disk space, while Excel 2000 took 146MB , and this is just the spreadsheet functionality excluding the word processing, presentation preparation and other things that are given in OpenOffice.org. I would expect the recent MS Offices to be even larger. Naturally, given that OpenOffice.org is FOSS (= free and open source software), you can legally buy it on a CD and even legally sell it. Richard Stallman told us that after he quit the MIT AI Lab to start the GNU project, he was able to make a modest living by selling GNU software that he recorded on tapes (that was a long time before CDs became common) and selling them to people without a good Internet connection. See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > Comparing to about 8MB of Firefox. I > think end users will not bother to download such a big file. Well, they can always pay for a CD or get it some other way. It's no different than MS Office which also needs to be acquired somehow. At least with OpenOffice.org there's a legal HTTP/BitTorrent download, however large, which people with a good Internet connection can use, which is much more than I can say about Microsoft Office. > Although > I have fast connection (1.5Mb download), it would take about 15 > minutes to download such a file. OK, I routinely download files of a similar scope (CD/DVD ISOs, collections of mp3s/oggs, .rpm updates etc.). > I will then test my Word & Excel > files with Open Office and let you know what I think. Thanks! Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Uri Even-Chen > Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 > E-mail: [email protected] > Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/ > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I never used Open Office Presenter. A user sent me a slideshow that > > she created in Windows OOo 3.1. She claims that in the design view it > > shows fine, but in the display view the Hebrew is reversed. When > > viewing the slideshow on my Kubuntu system with OOo 3.1 it looks fine. > > Does anyone have experience with this? What could be her problem? > > > > -- > > Dotan Cohen > > > > http://what-is-what.com > > http://gibberish.co.il > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
