I'm always amused when advocates for a certain technology proclaim a dominate player like Microsoft is soon to be replaced. Steven Vaughan-Nichols made such a proclamation about Linux taking over low cost PCs on www.linuxdesktop.com.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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So let's sum up...
Hi,
I voted this article because I think people should read it. BUT, let's see the two main reasons why the migration shouldn't happen:
"But to work productively in an office setting, Linux desktop users must have calendaring that integrates with Exchange seamlessly. I've seen many a Linux desktop user get fouled up when countless Outlook clones mangle or lose appointments, mess up time zone conversions, or are just not able to open Outlook appointments."
Right. I suggest that these problems wouldn't happen if "Opening outlook appointments" didn't require reverse-engineering. You know, if the format was open.
Then the other one:
"Sharing documents is also critical and compatibility between Office apps and Office clones still isn't there yet. I have occasional trouble running Office 2007 in a work group full of Office 2003 users, so imagine the problems Linux Office clones run into. "
I actually have a solution for this: ODF.
Please.
Merc.