On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:47, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:25, jtd wrote:
editable by whomever he is sending it to. From then on 95% of his docs will be exported as pdf. He also quickly notices the missing pdf converter in M$. And sloowly a new awarness seeps in.
Then a friend comes along and shows the aweful loading times that OO.o has,
Repeat 10 times - I will always preload. Also on all my "clients" dual boot machines linux loads and works atleast 25% faster.
the occasional page alignment mismatch in .doc files
which was the whole point of exporting as pdf. U have killed the doc monster by exporting as pdf.
and also installs a pirated copy of Adobe distiller which puts a nice shiny PDF converter icon in M$ Word.
Ahh. But questions arise deep within - why pirate? why is it not available by default. why do i have to pay when the reader is free. Isn't someone fleecing me?.
The person never gives OO.o a second thought...
Point being, piracy has to be controlled to make people use FOSS solutions. But at the same time FOSS solutions should raise their standards.
Which again is the point of loading Oo.o
Does anybody know what SQA activities FOSS have? How are the quality standards defined? What are the metrics?
Eyeballs and public review. which is a lot better than most of the prop companies certification games. Eg. sify who cant get a logon correct but have approvals and certifications to fill a godown.