Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
... or why Open Competition matters

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Samstag April 16, 2005

"Why does anyone use Internet Explorer?"
"I spend a lot of time in front of a computer every day surfing the Web. I can't remember the last time I saw a popup of any kind since I made the switch to Mozilla Firefox. Why isn't everyone using this browser?"
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 16 2005, 11:16:09 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [3]

OpenOffice.org used at College
"We have called our initiative Liberation UX, as it means liberation from paid software. The total cost savings using only diskless nodes can be estimated at Rs 50 lakh. Using OpenOffice.org, we have saved roughly Rs 70,000. Hardware costs saved by using other open source software are in the range of a couple of lakh."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 16 2005, 11:12:58 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3/Suite 1.7.7 Released"
"The Mozilla Foundation today released updates to two of it's main products, the Mozilla Suite and Firefox. This marks the third round of security fixes for Firefox, along with the seventh minor update to the 1.7 version of the Mozilla Suite. Security issues fixed in these new versions are listed on the Known Vulnerabilities page with detailed descriptions of each issue."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 16 2005, 11:10:53 AM CEST ) Permalink