[WSIS CS-Plenary] OpenOffice, Civil Society Structures and a new wiki..

[Beatriz Busaniche]

Ehglish / español 

El vie, 05-03-2004 a las 08:09, chris escribió:

> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 23:47, Robert Guerra wrote: 
> > let's not get into an open source debate. 

why not?
Por qué no?
> 
> Quite right. This list is not the place for such a discussion. I won't
> continue after this explanation. Sorry to those who already have so much
> mail to read.
> 

> > it is important to recognize that not everyone is using open source.

I would like to add a comment to this interesting conversation.  It is
true that not everyone is using free software, but it is also true that
not everyone is using propietary software (and i've seen a lot of
documents in propietary format in this and other lists of wsis) , so,
let's agree on which formats we are using and let's use only open
formats accesible for all (that doen't include .doc of course!!!).   It
is a mather of coherence with our own CS declaration, We promote free
software in our declaration, but in fact, how many of us really
understand and use free software? 

Desearía agregar un comentario a esta interesante conversación. ES
cierto que no todos usan software libre, pero también es cierto que no
todos usan software propietario (y he visto muchos documentos en
formatos propietarios en esta y otras listas de CMSI). Entonces,
acordemos que formatos usamos  y usemos sólo formatos accesibles a
tod at s.  (y esto no incluye .doc por supuesto)  Es un  asunto de
coherencia con nuestra propia declaración de Sociedad Civil. Promovemos
software libre en nuestra declaración, pero de hecho, cuántos de
nosotros realmente entienden y usan software libre? 

> 
> > 70+ megs is needed to dowload open office, and in certain parts of the 
> > world that's impossible. sigh!
> 
> Of course I was very aware of this. But for those who simply *cannot*
> get a copy of Open Office, my offer to make a graphic file of the flow
> chart or send a CD with OO was completely honest and still stands. I am
> very conscious that in some parts of the world the bandwidth is so small
> you cannot download OO. That's why I made the offer. 


Again i am agree with Chris. If the argument is that in some parts of
the world the bandwidth is so small to download OOO,  let's find the way
to bring them CD copies.
If access to OOO is so difficult, how could it be possible to access to
MS Office??? is that easier???  For sure not! 


As i know, OOO is easy to get,  easy to download, easy to use, and easy
to share with other people, as free software.   Much easier than MS
Office, for sure. 
Thank you chris for putting this issue under consideration! 

Otra vez estoy de acuerdo con Chris. Si el argumento es que en algunos
lugares del mundo el ancho de banda es muy pequeño para bajar OOO,
entonces encontremos la manera de llegar allí con copias de CD. 
Si el acceso a OOO es tan dificil, cómo podría ser entonces posible
acceder a Ms Office ? es más fácil acaso?  Seguro que no.

Hasta  donde se, Open Office es fácil de acceder, fácil de bajar, fácil
de usar y muy fácil de compartir con otras personas por ser software
libre. Mucho más fácil que MS Office por supuesto. 

Gracias Chris por traer este tema a consideración!

Saludos
Beatriz