On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 20:57 +0530, Rony wrote: > It is not hilarious when M$ Office multi-user license will be procured, > in the new machines that will be supplied, due to the critical nature of > the work. I don't expect buggy packages to be available on repos even > after newer versions are out. > > BTW, most M$ users who use non-licensed copies, are using software > copies that are quite some years old, they have no access to updates, > yet they hardly find any problems or bugs in their software and are > happily using them.
I'm neither defending Microsoft and nor am I criticising Linux. Rony, Linux isn't really ready for the mission critical desktop applications. I know exactly what you mean when you say the above statements. OOo can't be a replacement to M$ Office, just yet. It has a long way to go before it matures into a real competitor. Till then I dont think we can truly pitch Linux for the desktops / workstations where such work is to be carried out. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
