Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Windoze XP "registration" procedure

[Ken Foskey <foskey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Conrad Parker wrote:

> Let's look at calendaring, everyone's favourite beef.
There is a big thread on calendaring in Mozilla.   If this is an issue 
get into it....

> Well, it may work seamlessly, but does it work optimally? What are we
> missing out on?
Absolutely.  Samba first of all was supporting a fairly open DEC 
protocol.  Then M$ buggered it up, deliberately!! And it continues to 
try.  What about the specialise ie proxy sign on so that I cannot use 
Mozzilla at work when ie screws up and mozilla works and ie does not on 
one desktop and not another!

> Word Processors?
>
> Jeff, how much easier would office automation and "corporate memory" type
I pull in word documents from work into OO and return them.   It works! 
It is free!   I do steer clear of diagrams though this tends to be 
where the problems are.   Work does not know any difference!


I cannot believe how anal businesses are.   I am currently fighting a 
battle to get gzip installed.   It has been running without changes for 
five years on the data that I want to unzip.   They will not allow it on 
the box due to their new licensing policy.  Now this would be good for 
Open Software if it made sense.  I have been asking them to take out a 
support contract with an OO vendor.  I know the money will be put into 
good use paying for bright boys to develop open software.   They propose 
an untried pkzip because it is a reliabel vendor,  right based upon the 
time we tried in on MVS I dont think so...

Finally I wanted to have proprietry open source (no way would they 
support GPL!).  So put the code out there so that company programmers 
can fix their own problems.   No go!  All fixes are controlled by our 
team, no one else can see the code.  How do you sell these concepts to 
the PHM!

I am off to test some open office patches.....

signed
frustrated.

PS:  Appologies for the rant,   it was a shitty day....