On 8/31/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
coz they watch tv? :D, even illiterates understand filipino and that's a
fact, they may have difficulty speaking in filipino but they can understand,
how did i know this? i've been to the ilocos region, the visayas,
mindanao.... based on my experience they can.
im arguing based on the actual point of your metaphor, if you can't relate
to what i'm saying then that's your problem, and you mentioned this getting
off topic so this is my last reply to this thread and good luck with your
life too.
This thread is all about speculation whether there'll be Microsoft
Office for Linux, right? Why can't we just stick to that or end this
senselessness? If there'll be a Microsoft Office for Linux, then fine,
but as I said, almost all that churns out of their camp lately seems
to be Vaporware.
Granted that they release MS Office for Linux, they'd offer it with
their own Linux distro (checkout http://www.mslinux.org) or have
compromise with Suse and Red Hat (you've read reports of Ballmer
having lunch with Red Hat execs before right?).
Either way, the point that OpenOffice doesn't cut it better than MS
Office is misleading. For basic word processing, spreadsheet or
presentation, OpenOffice can and will deliver, I repeat, basic, as far
as functionality is concerned.
In terms of features to be used, there's the rub cause we haven't
defined/clarified what specific features were they in the first place
to be the measure of usability/functionality. Would MS Office matter
in the free and open source platform? Maybe but not really. We seemed
to have been too long entertaining the notion that we can't have a
decent office suite other than MS Office, and no matter what technical
feature any alternative may present before us, if we stick to that
conviction, nothing will ever be seen better an alternative an office
suite against MS Office.
It seems the whole thing is PEBKAC- problem exists between keyboard
and chair- the user, his/her preference and openness to possibilities
and alternatives.
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