Re: Another try to get a response

[John Machin <sjmachin lexicon net>]

On 19/11/2008 04:42, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 09:34 -0800, George Dell wrote:
> >  
> > Hello Adrian,
> >
> > Thank you for engaging me on this issue.  While I am a deep believer
> > in “freedom” as you mention it – I also need to be able to have people
> > (who understand none of the technospeak and specialized words), able
> > to get to an installed usable version.  Even your answer leaves my
> > head swimming. 
>
> Installing gnumeric is usually trivial and you don't even need to go to
> the gnumeric web site.
>
> If you are using Debian you just select that program like any other
> package for installation (using the synaptic pacakge manager accessible
> via System->Administration), similarly in Ubuntu or any other modern
> operating system.
>
> (Considering your question I suppose you are using MS Windows. In that
> case you chose an operating system that is designed to avoid having
> competitors software installed easily. I suggest you get another
> operating system.)

I'm not aware of any difficulty experienced by Windows users installing 
free and open software like Firefox (competes with MS Internet Explorer) 
or Openoffice.org (competes with Microsoft Office). Their web pages seem 
to be lucid enough:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
http://www.openoffice.org/