Hi,
My thoughts below:
On 7/30/07, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
- The documents it generates are not 100% compatible with Ms.Office
OpenOffice 2.0 does provide good compatibility. Again, it is the work of good reverse engineering. Compatibility is a problem on micro$oft's side. They _never_ comply with standards.
But they need to inter-operate with the rest of the world which means a good compatibility is important.
Rest of the world? micro$oft office is not a free/open standard.
The other issue that people in India generally face is of bandwidth. Ubuntu installs well.
Use Debian with 3 DVDs?
It impresses them. But then it runs up HUGE bills downloading softwares.
Why blame the software if ISPs restrict downloads/uploads, and if the end-user chooses such a plan?
How can we work with these people to effective push Linux into homes and offices?
Ask them to post queries to this mailing list?