On 8/22/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One word: VAPORWARE
Why pine for the days that Microsoft will port MS Office to Linux when
you can use OpenOffice?
Because MS Office works well. I use OpenOffice on Windows, and I miss
so much the cool features of MS Office -- I can't even find an MS
Visio replacement (that's open source) that's worth my time and
effort.
I believe self-respecting, freedom loving, cost-conscious and
ethically upright FOSS advocates and computer users would and should
practice what they preach when all they have to do is use the PC for
word processing, spreadsheet and presentations.
Self-respecting, freedom loving, cost-conscious and ethically upright
FOSS advocates and computer users *are not close-minded zealots who
will shun away from legally procured or obtained
proprietary/commercial software just because they're not free as in
beer/freedom*.
When you say practice what you preach: "Respect the rights of the
authors who slap open source or free as in freedom licenses to their
software because they want to and can do so."
When I personally advocate Open Source Software, I say "this is a good
choice, you may or may not use it but here is a list of advantages
(and disadvantages) for using something like this...". I don't say
"Let's not use Microsoft anything because they're evil and they're
wrong." -- I used to say that before, but I've seen the light, and the
reality that not all software should be free/open source (it's just
insane to think that in the first place).
It's like saying everyone in the Philippines should speak Filipino
because it's the nationalistic thing to do -- which is just a load of
bull IMO.
--
Dean Michael C. Berris
C/C++ Software Architect
Orange and Bronze Software Labs
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Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com
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