On 9/18/06, Levi Bard <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now on to your analogy of opensource trying to be like xzy product. Just
> > because people would like to see lets say gimp be more like photoshop
> or OO
> > to be more pretty like MS Office it does not mean they are not trying to
> > make it beter beyond that. They are striving to get to a mile stone.
>
> Sure. I guess the point I was trying to make was "as good as" is
> vastly different than "looks/acts/tastes exactly like."
>
>
> > It
> > not like Open Office folks are going to go oh we now have OO as pretty
> and
> > as functional as MS office now it time to stop working on it. The
> problem
> > is that it not even that OO is not as good or beter than MS office right
> now
> > but people simply do not want to learn new things and having to relearn
> > where everything else just because some pro open source it nazi comes in
> and
> > flips the company upside with his crap. For open source to get
> acceptance
> > in the corporate world and at the home user level it has to be comparble
> > menus locations etc to office.
>
> Now this I disagree with. Why should a piece of Free software pander
> to a bunch of whiny users who don't want to relearn Edit->Preferences
> instead of Tools->Options, instead of providing the best, most
> unified, most intuitive interface it can?
Because I dont see OpenOffice certs I only see MS office certs. It should
have a option for a ui mode that resembles MS office just for the fact that
it would cost too much in retraining and lost of productivity as Office
users fumble around with an Open Office interface they are simply not used
to. The same applies to gimp. I have a number of people now using gimp
in place of photoshop but it was not until recently when Gimpshop came out
as it was imilar enough they did not have to go hunting or picking through
things and it made it easier for them to learn gimp. Just having the keys
menus the same is a Big GOLD STAR in anyone crossover solution.
> Coke Photoshop , Office , Preiemere all set a
> > standard to which opensource has to meet if they expect to have any
> > crossover. Other wise it goingto be just a bunch of nerds who use it
> . To
> > get acceptence training has to be kept minimal as people simplydo not
> like
> > to learn new things, nor do I see it being cost effective in the terms
> of
> > lost productivity while IT is trying to train the staff on all this
> open
> > source goodness.
> >
> > Which is whay Office 12 is going to fail to much of a radical change in
> ui
> > will leave people confused on how to do something as the menus options
> and
> > location of items have drastically changed. But it still in Beta so MS
> has
> > time to screw it up more. Or they might fix it.
>
> This is the thing that *really* gets me. When *MS* changes a UI,
> everybody drools all over it because it's "such a big improvement,"
> but those same people will complain about a different UI when it's on
> top of a Free software package.
>
> --
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> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
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