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Re: [LUG] You dont wnat to do it like that.....

 

On 09/07/06, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OOo is a wonderful bark up the wrong tree, in the wrong forest!
> Replacing MSoffice with another office just reinforces the idea that
> MSOffice is useful. It may be useful to FLOSS in making people aware of
> open source software but it doesn't actually solve any of the real
> problems associated with it.
> If 1/100 the effort spent on OOo had been spent on making a web based
> office - see http://www.fckeditor.net/

<snip>

Web based word processing? Are you serious? As a writer, I can tell
you that I get all the best stuff written when I'm not on the network,
in fact, I get my best stuff written when I sit under the trees in
Hyde Park.

I don't think we need web based word processing. I think web mail is
pretty neat, and I think web based IM might have some usage, and even
a web interface to my calendar that syncs from my desktop machine, but
no, I'd like to keep my own mail and my own files on my own server (or
a server of a trusted associate) wherever possible, thanks.

matt

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Matt Lee
CNUK Media Foundation - http://cnuk.org/

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