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From: xcalibre xcalibre@mindspring.com
To: slug@nks.net slug@nks.net
Sent: 9/19/07 5:45 PM
Subject: [SLUG] IBM
> Well IBM has just released an Office Suite FREE to all supporting Linux and Windoze... The Lotus Symphony Office Suite... How ever the requirements are absolutely Nutz...
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> * Supported Windows platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
> * Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5, Redhat5
> * 900MB disk space minimum
> * 1GB RAM memory minimum
> * US English locale
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> The think is many people still don't even run 512 megs of ram... To say 1 GIG Minimum is beyond belief...
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> They should simply release Lotus Smart Suite and let that develop as it's been around and it's not that hard on resources as this...
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> Hopefully everyone will stop worrying about fancy looking GUI and just make the application work and keep it simple!!!
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> Guess we will have to wait and see how this develops...
>
> Bill Preece...
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"Beauty is in the eye of the the beholder"
As long as "a picture is worth a thousand words" a gui will win every popularity contest.
I think by far the largest impedance to the acceptance of Open Source Software is terminology. Next time you order a hamburger, do it in a foreign language and watch the clerks reaction. Windoze terms are user friendly. OSS terminology is not. With all the fear of invasion of privacy and malicious code, what potential Windoze convert would want something called "Open Source Software"? The OSS community needs a reality check and a name change. Then start renaming applications.
But alas, the trees continue to block the view of the forest.
The average computer user's idea of "simplicity" has nothing to do with hardware requirements.
/robin
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