[Techtalk] WHY everyone should use Linux

[Julia Christianson]

I don't mind paying (well, ok, I do mind paying the vastly inflated M$ 
Office price), but I've been around long enough to know that RMS is 
right about the practical importance of free as in freedom.

Acutally, I ordered a copy of StarOffice last week.  Don't have much 
hope for it though, as it's based on OpenOffice as it was several 
versions ago.  Wasn't aware of ThinkFree, thanks.  Looks like they have 
it packaged for Mac, Windows, or Linux.

-- Julia


Listpig wrote:
> What about opting for StarOffice?  Yeah, it's not free, but then neither is
> MSOffice by a long shot......
> 
> I assume you are an all PC shop: if you have any Mac machines (or if you're
> going to be running Wine anyhow) you might want to consider ThinkFree Office
> as well.  Still costs, but once again, not in MSOffice's price range.
> 
> http://www.thinkfree.com/
> 
> --pig
> 
> 
> On 7/21/04 17:58, "Julia Christianson" <juliac at patriot.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Conor Daly wrote:
>>
>>>If you can convince someone with some clout to allow you to, install
>>>OpenOffice.org on certain users' machines and tell them it's the latest
>>>'Office'.  They'll put in the extra effort to learning it and pride in
>>>'having the latest version' will prevent them from complaining.
>>
>>I'm very close to making the desktop switch in our office (the servers
>>have been Linux since 1998).  The reason we haven't done it before now
>>is that I was waiting for OpenOffice.org to be "ready".  Unfortunately,
>>it's still not, and given the nature of the problems I have with it, I'm
>>not sure it ever will be.
>>
>>So I'll be going with Microsoft Office apps running under Crossover
>>Office (from the Wine folks at codeweavers.com) and hoping that at some
>>point there will be a viable alternative.  Given that I've had them
>>using Netscape-> Mozilla from day one, I'm expecting the transition to
>>be fairly smooth; learning to log in and log out is going to be the
>>biggest problem, I think.
>>
>>I've also spent a fair amount of time installing "carrots" -- secure
>>webmail, a web-accessible database I commissioned, spam and virus
>>filters, etc. -- and educating them about the benefits of dumping
>>Microsoft.  At this point most of the staff (and most importantly, the
>>Director) are eager for the switch.
>>
>>(Unfortunately, the accounting department really wants to go Linux too
>>but I have yet to find an accounting package that does what we need it
>>to do.)
>>
>>-- Julia
>>
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