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

 

Matt Lee wrote:
> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> matt
Wireless WAN connections? Being under the trees in Hyde Park doesn't 
mean you can't be on t'Internet at the same time.

Grant.

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