Open source softwares: a very good article

[raminia+]

I found this article regarding open source softwares. I think reading this will help Pixelpost users and developers.

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As I watched Movable Type people move to Wordpress, not to mention users of other software, I noticed that most people were friendly and interested and appreciative of any help given, and even generous with the Wordpress development effort. But not all, and that’s a risk.

The advantage of using a commercial product is that you can expect a certain level of support for the product, and that includes, at times, taking heat when you make mistakes, or make a sudden change in direction in where the product is going.

The keys to a successful open source software effort can’t be found in lines of code or pretty screens; it exists in the relationship between those that create the source and those that use it.

[eon]

I working with open source for a long time and I like it. But I can understand why my dad would choose for Windows and everything around it.
- install and it works
- plug-in and it works (mostly)
- everything the same look-and-feel

Linux and his friends have a long way to go.

[se.nsuo.us]

Originally Posted by eon

- install and it works
- plug-in and it works (mostly)
- everything the same look-and-feel

Damn - looks like I have always had the worse luck with Windows most of the stuff I want never works the way I want in Windoze

[raminia+]

Originally Posted by se.nsuo.us

Damn - looks like I have always had the worse luck with Windows most of the stuff I want never works the way I want in Windoze

maybe you paid not much or too much for M$Windoze softwares

[se.nsuo.us]

Originally Posted by raminia

maybe you paid not much or too much for M$Windoze softwares

I don't use pirated software and I don't like being implied as a pirate :-/

[raminia+]

... then you are paying too much for something like M$Word.


hehe... MSWord gives me a headache when I'm writing large articles. absolute idiot!

[se.nsuo.us]

Well buying M$ softwares for us is a necessary evil as we have to test everything we make on various versions of Windoze running various versions of Internet Exploders

there is Open Office, which is a very good substitute for MS Office and it giver you the same looknfeel in windows...

fortunately it is really possible today to use opensource software under Windows OS

[jkn]

Open office is great, and the major flaws it has are mainly MS forced. We tried to roll out using it at work, but had to can the idea due to the impaired security issues.

I've been using it at home for a couple years and it's mostly fine for simple spreadsheet functions and such.

It doesn't cut it when it comes to pivot tables and slicing/dicing data - but 99% of people could care less about that.

[se.nsuo.us]

Originally Posted by jkn

It doesn't cut it when it comes to pivot tables and slicing/dicing data - but 99% of people could care less about that.

The day OOo fixes the support for Pivot tables Excel will go out of my computer