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Certified to suck.
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: worker201 on 24 August 2008, 08:57 ---
--- Quote from: Refalm on 24 August 2008, 07:09 ---Kintaro was just making a point here.
An operating system should be easy enough for my shallow teen cousin, as well and my grandmother.
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Disagree. Some operating systems should be easy enough for your cousin's grandmother. Not all of them have to be, though. As long as there are open document standards and open hardware standards, a multi-tiered system of abstraction layers or user-friendliness or support or a combination of all 3 is totally workable. In fact, an open market kinda requires there to be computers for tinkerers, computers for steady workflows, and computers for grandparents. It's the open document and hardware standards that are getting in the way of this ideal - not the ease of use.
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No, obviously if you want Microsoft's new patented formats, you should pay for Microsoft Office. Your ease of tinkering doesn't defy the rights of others. It's like submitting closed, unwilling individuals to "open" towards medical experiments without their consent.
You can run Microsoft Office fine on Linux with crossover office. You greedy bastard!
worker201:
Who said anything about "Microsoft's new patented formats"? Certainly not me. And medical experimentation is a ridiculous metaphor. Try again.
Kintaro:
Well good luck Sir, only I know you'll all resort to force eventually anyway when you realize the pipe-dream you live.
Aloone_Jonez:
The idea that you can patent a file format is the most retarded ever because it means that one organisation can effectively own everyone's data.
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 24 August 2008, 13:03 ---The idea that you can patent a file format is the most retarded ever because it means that one organisation can effectively own everyone's data.
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File > Save As > RTF
Was that hard to relinquish their ownership?
EDIT: Just looked it up and its not patented, freetards are just too dumb to reverse engineer it.
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