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Marek Werstak wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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>>>Gnomemeeting is working fine on ppc and I would not support the |
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>>>hype about skype. |
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> In my opinion we should support the hype, because the standard user |
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> wants this stuff ... I sat a whole long day at the information stand |
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> of an Linux Info Meeting with my iBook dressed with a gentoo shirt, |
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> of course! and the questions were always the same ... Can you open |
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> MS-docs? Can you watch Flash? Do you skype? I would like to buy a |
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> Pegasos or Mac, but ... Why do you use Linux on a Mac and so |
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> on ........ |
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My answers to random maybe next user: |
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- You can use openoffice or other office automation suite without major |
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issues. |
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- There are plugins that let you see flash even if there is better stuff |
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around (ever heard about svg?) |
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- You can use gnomemeeting. |
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- Pegasos or Mac is the same we do our best to support everything |
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produced by people supporting us. |
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- I use linux on mac because is faster, I don't like so much the Apple |
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UI and I like to have choice even on the UI. |
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My answers to you: |
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- Most flash uses looks dumb from my point of view. I don't like |
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proprietary solution if there is something better around that just |
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deserve more attention. If somebody ask me about flash, I'd tell him how |
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svg is good most time. |
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- Skype is just hype, if you know that there is asterix and that you |
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could have the same results with nicer tools (see gnomemeeting) just |
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using something different from h323 and the baseline gsm codec, you'd |
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move away from skype and start using that. |
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- Microsoft formats again are dumb and I started to write my documents |
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on xml after having bad experience with tex. For people that do like |
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complex implementation there is openoffice, abiword and so on. |
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There is plenty of better solution, why you use an "alternative |
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platform" and just ask to have the overhyped, overcommecialized, low |
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quality offers? |
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Luca Barbato |
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Developer |
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Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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