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cesium133:
Yeah, for writing papers I use LaTeX. It's pretty much standard for publishing in science. I've tried using Beamer for presentations, though, but my advisor wants us to use a standard theme for our presentations, and I wasn't skilled enough at Beamer to get it to replicate that theme.

jwhouk:
I guess I'm fortunate that the SOWI uses Office products, and I can therefore get a deal on HUP versions of Office for only (essentially) the cost of shipping.

For example, the version of Office 2010 that I have on this thing (a Win7 machine) was a HUP10 suite bought because of the state. I'm suitably impressed.

Lupercal:
This is pretty ridiculous news. With this and Windows 8...I don't know. I can see that Ubuntu might really start making a widespread name for itself in terms of its operating system, but also of Windows-friendly software like OpenOffice etc (I think Ubuntu has its own, very similar office suite). No point in punishing consumers when free options are widely available.

ankhtahr:

--- Quote from: Lupercal on 04 Mar 2013, 12:13 ---This is pretty ridiculous news. With this and Windows 8...I don't know. I can see that Ubuntu might really start making a widespread name for itself in terms of its operating system, but also of Windows-friendly software like OpenOffice etc (I think Ubuntu has its own, very similar office suite). No point in punishing consumers when free options are widely available.

--- End quote ---

The suite Ubuntu uses is the "LibreOffice" suite. The company which funded the OpenOffice Suite, Sun Microsystems, was bought by Oracle, who then tried to influence the OpenOffice developers. The developers didn't like it, so they forked the code and started their own project, called LibreOffice. Oracle found out, how big a mistake that was, so they now gave the OpenOffice project over to the Apache Foundation. Still, most of the old developers are in the LibreOffice project.

I switched over to Libre in the minute the fork was released, as I didn't want to support Oracle's company policy, as did all the major Linux distributions.

In general I really feel like Linux gets better and better as a daily use OS. I'm really happy about switching (3 years ago, Arch Linux currently), and now that even the biggest flaw many people have about Linux (no support for games) seems to be worked at (Steam was released for Linux recently), I really hope that more and more people switch over.

celticgeek:
Right on!

- the Celtic Linux Geek

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