While some battle for open programs and formats, many south africans use pirated software and dont know there are alternatives. i install open source alternatives for my students, but with the problems i am having with libre office i cannot reccomend it. it is more than ten times slower than open office 3.2.1
On 28/01/2011, Arda Tunccekic <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for them. I hope people get what they want. > And I wish one day every nation have a great goverment. > And Tom, I appreciate English people like you because you know what's > going on in the world. > Maybe it's the English culture, I don't know. You live in uk, don't you? > > > On 28.01.2011 20:58, Tom Davies wrote: >> Unbelievable news from Egypt! >> >> We work hard to help people, organisations, government departments and >> others >> communicate and give a new choice to help them do that. Many of us live >> fairly >> comfortably in countries that at least pay "lip-service" to the notion of >> "Freedom of Speech". Many of us see the struggle against proprietary >> formats >> and programs as part of pushing at the boundaries of our current freedoms. >> >> Try pinging an Egyptian server today and you apparently get no response. >> From >> 12:34 am today the Egyptian government switched off the internet into or >> out of >> the country. Some but not many satellite communications and some proxy >> servers >> are keeping a few things open. Sms is down, twitter is down, facebook is >> down >> while outside Egypt we hardly notice any of it. >> >> Lets hope more lives are not lost there! >> Regards to all from >> Tom >> >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- *Life is a journey ♫ where are you going?* -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
