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$. And sloowly a new awarness seeps in.
Then a friend comes along and shows the aweful loading times that OO.o has, the occasional page alignment mismatch in .doc files and also installs a pirated copy of Adobe distiller which puts a nice shiny PDF converter icon in M$ Word. 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.
Does anybody know what SQA activities FOSS have? How are the quality standards defined? What are the metrics?