The normal interoperable answer is the solution to this problem: be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you output. This will buy the FLOSS some time to rectify errors like these, and hopefully, by then, KDE on Win will be a viable option for the masses. The good thing about this is that KOffice 2 may have much better support of ODF.Īnother point to note is that, while the possibility may be there, it may take some time for KDE on Win to be recognised as a contender. If we really are to present ourselves to the rest of the world as a bunch of disconnected monkeys incapable of displaying the same content coherently, then lets not talk about convincing people away from Windows. Right now, KOffice’s support of simple ODF presentations that have just been created out of Openoffice, or even of itself, is just plain horrible. The crucial problem is whether KOffice will implement the complete Openoffice’s support of ODF.
#Open office mac 10.11.1 windows
The real problem here that I can see is not whether interoperability with Windows will undermine Linux adoption. shaaring xDĮver since Trolltech announced that QT4 will be cross-platform, it became very clear that KOffice will follow down the same path. The inevitable rise of the open source mentality clearly demonstrates the superiority of the principle cooperation versus the outdated market competition regime and ‘intellectual property’ ideology. The quality of most FOSS apps has progressed very nicely over the last years bringing it mostly on par with commercial offers, here behind and there ahead – the speed of progress though and the steep advance of shared base technologies make me really look forward into a bright future of actually WORKING computer software.
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In the end, as I understand this free market crap, the cheaper better product should win over the overly-marketed but costful and restricting alternative. For the newbies, the branding advantage of Microsoft clearly doesn’t count that much – their minds are not yet littered with WOW and bling, they just want an internet gaming typewriter toaster.
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The battle for market share – which is really not so much an important war for the community as there is nothing to loose for us – will be decided by big PC vendors who either put GNU/Linux/KDE4 on the machine and sell it for 100 bucks less, or install Vista on it for the conservatives.
Most developers rather concentrate on improving upon something referred to as… THE CODE(tm)
If it’s their choice, hey who is going to question that, or even care about it?īesides, it’s not actually about converting present windows users to FOSS. Well so what, that just means a lot of people in the first world will more and more be left behind a hell lot of more people in the rest of the world.
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