Re: [ILUG-BOM] ET:Microsoft and Open Source

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:18:01PM +0530, Rony wrote:

When low cost laptops are sold, they come with a disclaimer that "it has linux pre-loaded which is free so it has limitted functionality until another operating system is installed". Does it imply that linux being a free os will never have the full functionality of a 'paid' os?

Because the sheep cannot open their PowerPoint files on them.

Yes, yes, I know about Openoffice, but that is the perception. Besides, the way MS owns and holds the file formats a secret (XML? Ha! More likely to be a binary dump inside an <MS /> tag) OOo cannot keep up and be 100% compatible. Hell, *MS* can't keep up.