On 27/06/11 08:23, Vickram Crishna wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:54 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>From the wikipedia founder's blog
Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats
By Jimmy Wales
People sometimes ask me why I’m so adamant that Wikipedia must always
use free software, even when in some cases it might be the case that
proprietary software might be more convenient or better suited for
some particular need that we have.
The current LibreOffice works pretty well for most straightforward
operations.
The learning curve from other office packages is minimal, and I have
used several over the years, including at least three comprehensive
proprietary office suites. Each had its own advantages and
disadvantages, and I cannot help but think that blind allegiance to
any one of them is simply egotistical rather than based on sound logic.
As Wales points out, there may always be some combination of needs
that makes one package superior to another. With LibreOffice, one is
free to file such a combination as a bug and have a reasonable chance
of getting it addressed, even if one is not actually competent to
sorting out the problem oneself.
Talking about Libre office, now as we know Oracle has given Open office
to apache foundation.
Well, Oracle says it did so just to show there commitment to "open source ".
As if they could not really show the commitment by growing it as a FOSS
project and putting funds into it.
Any ways the latest version of Libre office has got really great features.
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/
So what Vikram said is actually happening.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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