[orca-list] Ubiquitous proprietary software: was, New Linux user, needing higher quality speech...

["B.Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Yeah, I dislike most of the programs he mentions anyway. Itunes forces 
one to install all the bloated extras to update, even if they have 
removed those components, and to not update is foolish because this is a 
program that regularly has security issues that are being patched.
I know that in some cases libreoffice and or open office have issues 
with some Microsoft formatted files even though the file type is 
supported. This seldom has effected me, and could be dealt with  more or 
less by repositioning images and the like. If this occured regularly it 
could be a problem as one would be spending significant time getting 
some pages to print correctly etc, and bosses don't want to pay for that 
efficiency loss. Of course one has no such problems if they start out 
using OO or LO and the whole office or company use the same.
I usually go on and use docx, or doc if I know that there's a good 
chance that someone will need to use the file who doesn't have a newer 
version of MS-office.
Microsoft office is another example of software that has gained critical 
mass, and even though many shops have gone over to using Google  Apps, 
office is not going away any time soon.


     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886

On 16/05/15 03:59 AM, kk wrote:
> On Saturday 16 May 2015 06:46 AM, Josh K wrote:
> > If linux did support all my favorite applications out of the box like 
> > windows does I would certainly switch full time. but it does not, so 
> > I need to stay with windows full time and use linux as a hobby OS for 
> > now. I need itunes for example to manage my apple tv, my entire 
> > family uses windows. they won't switch because they use itunes, 
> > spotify, ms-office, windows only games that require direct-x and so 
> > on. sorry to say Linux just won't take off until it gets more windows 
> > apps compiled for linux in its various app stores and repositories. 
> > Most folks its been my experience care about well will it support 
> > itunes? i need itunes for this or that or I need some feature that 
> > sound forge or band in a box only supports. well then you need 
> > windows. if you are in a position where you can go without by all 
> > means use your favorite linux distro. If you can do without and do 
> > not need itunes, or ms office, or some other native windows apps a 
> > linux distro will work just fine. if not stay with windows and run 
> > some open source stuff in it.
>
> Well It is not about Linux being able to compile all that proprietary 
> stuff.
> It can be done I guess and Whine does a good job of running Windows apps.
> But These all are proprietary software which does not respect the 
> basic digital freedom of users.
> In proprietary software there are a lot of harmful things and a lot of 
> bad things can happen with you.
> I Have been using Linux full time and libre office does my work pretty 
> well, I have firefox and Thunderbird taking care of internet and email.
> I use Eclipes for programming as I am a programmer.
> All this happens without compromizing my basic digital freedom and 
> there is total transparency about how the program actually does it's 
> work (If I ever doubt it's security etc)
> So all the substitutes are available and Ubuntu or almost all distros 
> do a great job.
> Being an international software consultent, I need a virus free, 
> transparent system on which I can rely upon and that gives me total 
> freedom.
> So that's why I seriously never found a point in compiling the said 
> proprietary softwares on Linux.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
>
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