Jon Perez wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>
>
>>"better". The only reason I want this functionality is to make my software
>>available to windoze users--despite their unfortunate ignorance, they are
>>people too. That's what I always say.
>
>
> Actually, I think it's many unix/linux users who are
Tim Golden enlightened us with:
> Well, I'm with you. I'm sure a lot of people will chime in to point
> out just how flexible and useful and productive Linux is as a
> workstation, but every time I try to use it -- and I make an honest
> effort -- I end up back in Windows
I'm curious, what do you
Jon Perez enlightened us with:
> Actually, I think it's many unix/linux users who are ignorant of
> just how nice, stable and productive Windows can be as a desktop
> environment.
I thought the same thing after spending two hours removing some adware
I found.
> Ever since Win2K got rid of the con
> James Stroud wrote:
>> "better". The only reason I want this functionality is to make my
software
>> available to windoze users--despite their unfortunate ignorance, they
are
>> people too. That's what I always say.
Jon Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, I think it's many unix/linux
Jon Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> James Stroud wrote:
>
>> "better". The only reason I want this functionality is to make my software
>> available to windoze users--despite their unfortunate ignorance, they are
>> people too. That's what I always say.
>
> Actually, I think it's many unix/lin
James Stroud wrote:
> "better". The only reason I want this functionality is to make my software
> available to windoze users--despite their unfortunate ignorance, they are
> people too. That's what I always say.
Actually, I think it's many unix/linux users who are ignorant of just
how nice, stab
On Saturday 17 September 2005 10:29, Tim Roberts wrote:
> James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I think the motivation is to ween people off of M$ products altogether,
>
> Well, CrossOver Office doesn't really do that. You're still running
> Microsoft Office.
>
> >...to get
> >them used to wo
The other thing (and this is always true) is that "better" needs
definition. On purely technical grounds, on average, MSOffice is better
than OO. However, holistically, OO is probably better (no lock-in, open
standards, multiplatform and so on). Those soft issues do matter.
On Mon, 19 Sep
Tim Roberts a écrit :
> James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I think the motivation is to ween people off of M$ products altogether,
>
>
> Well, CrossOver Office doesn't really do that. You're still running
> Microsoft Office.
>
>
>>...to get
>>them used to working an a unix environm
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I think the motivation is to ween people off of M$ products altogether,
Well, CrossOver Office doesn't really do that. You're still running
Microsoft Office.
>...to get
>them used to working an a unix environment and to the idea of using open
>altern
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "better". The only reason I want this functionality is to make my software
> available to windoze users--despite their unfortunate ignorance, they are
> people too. That's what I always say.
+1 QOTW...
--
Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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http
I think the motivation is to ween people off of M$ products altogether, to get
them used to working an a unix environment and to the idea of using open
alternatives rather than thinking that commercial software is somehow
"better". The only reason I want this functionality is to make my software
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>My department has switched from vmware to wine/cxoffice.
Fascinating. If you don't mind, and if others don't mind an off-topic
diversion, can you spend a few minutes explaining what led to this
decision? Wine is pretty good, but it will never be as thor
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> My department has switched from vmware to wine/cxoffice. I have been
> playing with this all morning, and I've gotten this far. If someone
> has done this, could you point me in the right direction
>
>
> euler 65% winpy
> Enthought Edition buil
I know Thomas Heller monitors this list but you should probably
post this to gmane.comp.python.py2exe as it is the py2exe
newsgroup.
FYI, Larry Bates
James Stroud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My department has switched from vmware to wine/cxoffice. I have been playing
> with this all morning, and I've g
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