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- juicebag, on 10/10/2007, -4/+77BREAKING NEWS: PEOPLE CHOOSE FREE PROGRAM INSTEAD OF ONE THAT COSTS OVER 100 DOLLARS
- nebbyfoshebby, on 10/10/2007, -13/+53openoffice.org FTW
- i4mt3hwin, on 10/10/2007, -14/+46While open office is really nice, I have to admit, Office 2007's ribbon bar is amazing.
- qwuinc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32Shame that the actual article is only one sentence longer... "The Central Party’s Office is taking advice from enterprises for the project." :-)
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -9/+33You're a *****. It seems to me it doesn't matter what country uses open source, you're still going to find something ***** to say about it. That's just your nature isn't fkr3? A troll.
A few weeks ago Vietnam was reported talking with Balmer about OOXML. Where the ***** were your comments? - yenster, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Hello! It looks like you've misspelled the word "gorund." Would you like Word to:
[ ] Change this from "ground" to the correct spelling, "gorund?"
[ ] Upgrade your copy of Office with useless "enhancements" which only make your office suite susceptible to email-based attacks from Chinese criminal enterprises?
[ ] Uninstall Word and replace it with the 1988 DOS version of WordPerfect, whose spell checker actually works?
[ ] Don't show me this tip again. - Bartboy919, on 10/10/2007, -7/+24Open Office: It's the Communist way! ;)
- cenarta, on 10/10/2007, -15/+28Little by little, inch by inch. Before you know it MSFT is going to be traded on an OTC bulletin board. Although that could be a long while.
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -6/+19Open source eeevildoers! Osama edits his videos on Linux!
- leek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13completely off-topic
- Falldog, on 10/10/2007, -12/+25Christ's sake, it's a program!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Even better was this article from the same page:
* A 15-year-old diver in Quang Ninh Province was killed by a fish when he was searching for abalone under the water. Local fishermen have caught the one-meter-long killer fish. - Nichiren, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Yeah it's a wonder why more people haven't already done so...
- bbtrev, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15i'm not going to thank jesus!
- mashedpotatoes, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12When I started at my current job 5 years ago, I was blown away to find out that they used OpenOffice exclusively instead of MS Office. A few years later we moved to an imaging system and still integrated this free software smoothly while moving into this new era. Come to find out, OpenOffice still worked better than MS Office! Consider $300 per MS Office Pro license x130 employees x 5 years = almost $200,000 in savings. Incredible.
- Zaetha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Open source FTW
- vemerge, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15Yup, Office 07 pretty much sealed the deal as far as OOo is concerned. I was using OOo at home, but I haven't even really opened any of the OOo apps since I've installed 07.
- PinkoComrade, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11It just goes to show when the western world realizes the error of they're ways and changes Open Source will reign and all will be well
- Coy0te, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Ok thats true for linux / windows but Open Office is not on par with Office 07.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8"there is no force"
I find your lack of faith disturbing - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8You're not impressing anyone with your spelling either.
- leek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8"permission" does not mean "advice"
- Phocion55, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Microsoft certainly listened to the customers when they said they wanted a more "polished" Office suite.
Literally. - MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I've always loved the irony of people like you calling others sheep when you go lock stock and barrel with the same software that 90% of everyone uses because they were told it's the best. Sorry that the individual minority sheep don't want to think like you do.
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Tonight on Fox News: open source software is the choice of Communists who killed sixty thousand of our youth. Will free software be responsible for the death of YOUR children? We report, you decide.
- turbodiesel, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10What a blow to Microsoft. Instead of 20,000 pirated copies of Office, Viet Nam is switching to Open Office.
- agimat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Like anyone there ever bought a copy.
- duggtodeath, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Sadly, we already did...over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over....
- oboredone, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8You're an idiot.
- MrTea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5For those who may be wondering about grammar checking in oowriter, install LanguageTool
http://www.languagetool.org/
It runs on java, but it's free and it works. - eean, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Site licenses would probably be pretty cheap, especially if they twisted Microsoft's arm a little.
Which makes such victories all the better. - myfanwy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6anyone know of any resources anywhere, showing major orgs/govs that have ditched windows/office for foss alternatives?
i would love to be able to show to our IT admin, a diehard MS fan, how many important groups have made the switch - zman14321, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10Open source software is better because of it's principle. Since all of the source code is available it changes, and fixes itself with everybody's help quickly. Open source is about software for everyone, from everyone, that has no restrictions for its use. Proprietary software tends to be loaded with restrictions as to its use, requires multiple copies for multiple machines, can limit the users freedom, and can contain bugs that cannot be fixed until the parent company releases a patch. Although it is not seen as much in word processors, the system of opensource is a better way of doing things, and just from watching in recent years the advancements in gnu/linux are faster, and larger than anything proprietary can match. (6 month release cycles). The choice of distributions empowers the user, in short opensource software offers more freedom and choice than closed source alternatives.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6"You know nothing of communism ,there is no force!"
This may be true in theory (in a perfect world of robotic people) but in practice it takes force to get an entire society to "accept" communism. - Lynxpro, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9
Funny...I'd say Word Perfect 5.1 was the best word processor. At least it didn't insert funky formatting errors in documents that went beyond 100 pages, unlike a modern word processor sold by a company whose headquarters is in Redmond, Washington. - oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4There is a definite irony about Communists using MS Office - microsoft's empire is an ultimate symbol of capitalism
F/OSS is an obvious choice - MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You SAY that and yet still call other people who made the same decision, but chose different software sheep. Do you see it? The moment you lumped a group of people together, you made the mistake of believing you know how they will react in every situation.
- sirhomer, on 10/10/2007, -8/+12That's cause OpenOffice currently is not that good. Really. Look at the success of Firefox, and it's competition is another FREE product that comes pre-bundled with most computers.
I hope that OpenOffice gets on par with MS Office soon and I predict it will. If not KOffice will. - ptFoe, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Ribbon is not a MS invention so Open Office can implement it if it wants.
- eean, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They are in the WTO... the government at least probably doesn't pirate.
- ElRayQuieres, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9Because hippies hate the man.
- Bamborzled, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I whole-heartedly agree. Although it takes some getting used to, the Ribbon becomes easy, intuitive, and it'll uncover features that were once buried in menus, like the citation system, the paragraph formatting options, and most importantly, the styles, which nobody ever used. Plus it comes with some great designs and cover pages (of course, they should have included them years ago).
That said, OOXML still sucks. Every other part of Office 2007 is excellent. - sigintop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Well, to be fair. All computers programs in Vietnam are free. Not legal, but it's free. :D
- tont0r, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7No one said 'buh-bye'. Stop putting childish statements in topics please.
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5at least you don't have to bitch about title says it all.
- Herolint, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8I know you are a complete troll fkr3, but for the sake of the impressionable young people here on Digg, open source doesn't have anything to do with communism. If anything, it is completely opposite of communism; the key difference being choice. Communism is implemented by force, whereas open source is implemented by freedom, personal choice, and good will.
- FreakyT, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Word really would have been much better if they had just condensed the UI of every feature into the paperclip.
- faithfreedom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+399.99% of MS Offices in Vietnam are free. I guess the VN Communist Party switchs from an illegal product to an open source product. Either way, it's doesn't cost a penny.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Blender. Look at the recent article wrt Mono reimplementing it. There were 3/4 cases of prior art.
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