On Sunday 14 October 2007 21:32, Rony wrote:
jtd wrote:
On Friday 12 October 2007 18:10, vivek khurana wrote:
On 10/12/07, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
You can switch now and save yourself a load of pain 2 yrs downhill or not at all and sink in the lake with the millstone firmly tied to your head.
We keep hearing this every year and life just goes on smoothly in the CSS world. (Closed Source Software) Doomsday gets an extension every year.
Good for you. wait until u are shot. Like one of my clients machines was last week. Luckily for him the linux partition recovered his data. And now 2 yrs after he was advised to train himsel on linux, he is starting to do so. In the mean time he is thoroughly crippled for the 2nd week running. 2yrs ago 3 to 4 weeks of work would have enabled him to rid himself of doze. But he thought that he did not have the time.
c) Will you use Oo, if Oo failed to export files in any format other than odf ? Not even RTF or text or HTML ?
Moot question. Oo exports in all open formats and several closed ones too. So does inkscape.
Inkscape is the libre equivalent of Corel Draw and the industry uses the .cdr format, which is not recognised by Inkscape.
cdr. format is afaik patent encumbered. If you wrote code to read or write you are likely to be standing nanga at the corner after the lawyers are thru.
There ends the FOSS presentation. CDR files are regularly exchanged between suppliers, vendors and customers.
For people like u yes.
Industry does not use libre file formats.
You are in your own wonderland arent you.
e) There are plethora of applications which do not run on Linux that doesnt make those applications inferior.
That is you hiding behind an imaginary wall. Any app which does not run on linux is CRAP - not just inferior. And any closed app is vastly inferior to a FOSS app irrespective of this or that feature. you will know when such apps bite you. Till then have fun.
That's imagination running wild. You are mixing between a finished product and manufacturing / upgradation process.
Hehe. you are the one mixed up. But we'll wait for u to unmix.
CSS is paid software so the software company always has the sword hanging over its head and users can criticise it, curse it, holler at the makers till they come up with better upgrades.
Stop fooling yourself. Try doing it and keep us posted on the results.
Libre software is like free accommodation in an Ashram.
That clearly shows a lack of capability to understand complex issues. I shall try to reduce the level of the discussion ta couple of notches. Next time.