hello, roni Pradipto and others, I have gone through the list of problems which roni has pointed out and also what Chetan said regarding his experience. firstly chetan, are you using gnu/linux or the buggy M$ OS? what I ment by buggy I will come to it later. but if you use the official .rpm packages from the openoffice.orrg site, most people report not just performance improvements but also smooth performance. for example I am making some software that needs a spreadsheet like interface for an organisation which is already using open office on gnu/linux. the name of the organisation is BIAF and it is pritty huge (just to say that huge organisations are very happy using gnu/linux and related softwares for their highly professional needs). the point is that they found some formulas were not coming up right in open office calc and worked very well in excel. now I wasn't aware of the difference between the actual openoffice officially downloaded from their web site and the one coming with ubuntu. but now when I gave them the official openoffice, their problems are gone. so I would request roni if possible to send a sample excel file if the client wont mind and we can check if things can be done. I will try it on gnu/linux so we can conclude that the windows version may have problems. I am saying this with the logic that my customer still faces the same formula problem on open office on windows. their accountent still uses windows for tally so he uses openoffice on windows and the problem persists. now the word "buggy ". I completely agree with Pradeepto that bug free system is a "hilarious " statement. haha that was such a nice joke for me. I am a professional consultent and also a researcher and I was so frustrated using windows that now I am very relaxed using ubuntu after my screen reader improved. I want to throw an open challenge. can some one claim on this list that any given software is "ABSOLUTELY BUG FREE " and "MY SOFTWARE OR OS NEVER HAD ERRORS AND WILL NEVER HAVE ERRORS" if some one can give this to me on a stamp paper, I am ready to loos any thing.
consider this case and I bet this has happened not just with me but many othres.I work on "powerless pointless " also popularly known as Powerpoint, I did my work on the presentation for the entire night. since I can't work with images as a blind person, I told my colligue to align those for me. I went confidently to the IIT Guwahati International conference with my toshiba laptop loaded with "many peoples favorite windows xp ". my name was called for the presentation and the lappy was attached to the over head projector. and what happens? nothing much just that my bugg free windows crashes for no reason and I have to postpone my presentation. what you call in mumbai lingo? "popat ho gaya ". such and many cases happen with windows and I feel that windows dispite of all things said and done still laks professionalism in many aspects and in consistency is another definition of windows. only thing is like good professional boys m$ improved a bit with xp. at least from consistency point of view it is a bit better but still "error report send or don't send comes up ". means even m$ knows that their systems have errors. so I believe that saying that windows and related apps have no buggs is not just "hilarious " but also over favoriteness for some thing. I know any gnu/linux distro will have bugs and a lot of them. but consider the time m$ or any propriatory software developer will take to fix the bug and how much time does free software community take? I remember early when fiesty was lonched in app, there was a miner bug in gnome. the gnome guys were informed and the bug was fixed in just 5 hrs! I wont blaim roni or any one who feels that gnu/linux laks professional touch. while that is an absolutely bull shit statement and made only out of lak of knowledge. but it is we the free software community to be blaimed equally for not providing enough support or education (at least in India it is true to a great extent ). however one needs to find the right people and more importantly when they are ready to prove, we should keep our bius away and sportingly except that our knowledge was indeed limited and what we knew was not sufficient to pass any comments. So please don't make such statements about bug free systems etc that is completely a false statement and carries nither scientific base nor common sense. and while I say that gnu/linux does have buggs I can at the same time show 10000 buggs in windows which happen very often. regards, Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
