On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:47, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:25, jtd wrote: > > editable by whomever he is sending it to. From then on 95% of his > > docs will be exported as pdf. He also quickly notices the missing > > pdf converter in M$. And sloowly a new awarness seeps in. > > Then a friend comes along and shows the aweful loading times that > OO.o has,
Repeat 10 times - I will always preload. Also on all my "clients" dual boot machines linux loads and works atleast 25% faster. > the occasional page alignment mismatch in .doc files which was the whole point of exporting as pdf. U have killed the doc monster by exporting as pdf. > and > also installs a pirated copy of Adobe distiller which puts a nice > shiny PDF converter icon in M$ Word. Ahh. But questions arise deep within - why pirate? why is it not available by default. why do i have to pay when the reader is free. Isn't someone fleecing me?. > The person never gives OO.o a > second thought... > > Point being, piracy has to be controlled to make people use FOSS > solutions. But at the same time FOSS solutions should raise their > standards. Which again is the point of loading Oo.o > Does anybody know what SQA activities FOSS have? How are the > quality standards defined? What are the metrics? Eyeballs and public review. which is a lot better than most of the prop companies certification games. Eg. sify who cant get a logon correct but have approvals and certifications to fill a godown. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
