Comment 1330 for bug 1

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:40, Tom <email address hidden> wrote:
> MicroSquish Office has plenty of bugs too.  My favourite is in Excel where [...]

Of course, it has also plenty of bugs (and I mentioned that) - e.g. my
favorite Excel-bug is: It can't handle negative times. Guess, in my
room sits somebody printing out xls sheets with working hours and
calculating extra hours sum by hand!

But anyway, IMHO Linux/Ubuntu have the better architecture as the big
plus - and THE COMMUNITY!
By accident I dived more into contribution that I could ever have done
with Microsoft. There you need to know particular people and so on. -
Years back I tried to help out with bug reports and even calling them
(local support hotlines) - yes I was naive.

I think that Ubuntu is better overall quality but the point I wanted
to make is: Plenty of people are sticking with Windows for plenty good
reasons. Just to give an example: Somebody not knowing much of
computers can buy yet another hardware gadget without the need to
worry about compatibility with the OS. Everywhere is written if
Windows 7 compatibility is given - but quite nobody writes
"Linux-compatible" even if the compatibility is given. Please don't
focus on this now - it is just one example. I myself invest the more
time in finding a compatible gadget for the sake of other advantages,
but other people are not willing to search the internet for known
issues with a thing they want to buy.

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Martin Wildam

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