On 18/03/2010 09:41, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:07:12, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Therefore, I have no problem with proprietary Flash, even though I
understand the problems that it causes. I wish that more proprietary
software, such as Solidworks and MS Office, were available for Debian
or Linux in general.
Is there any real life functionality of MS Office that OpenOffice.org is
not providing? My experience is that more than 90% of the users would be
happy with Abiword+Gnumeric.
The problem is collaboration. There are quite a few word documents that don't
open properly in open office (hebrew usually typesets wrong, math doesn't work
at all ...)
Powerpoint files are also a complete mess in openoffice.
Personally though I use lyx for anything I can get away with. Luckily in
university mathematics no one knows word. Almost everyone apart for a few
students that haven't converted yet use latex.
But, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm aware that there are some
applications that will not have free (as in free speech) replacements
very soon. I'm thinking of Autocad and Photoshop[1] in particular.
My only hope here is that as soon as GNU/Linux will have a big enough
user-base (30%?) the respective companies will provide native GNU/Linux
versions themselves.
[1] no, Gimp is no Photoshop replacement for professional use
definitely true
Regards,
Andrei
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