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[Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with you totally Ulrich.  I'm currently attending an online college, and our e-books are all protected.  So Acrobat Reader is the only program that I've found, which will open them properly.  Which is a bad thing, since it requires me to either a) always read them on a computer, or b) spend hours trying to print them to another application, in order to save them as an unsecured e-book (which is typically about 6x the size of the original).

Which is why I mentioned a footnote or some other way of informing the user to check with their favorite applications for Linux versions.  Or listing both proprietary and open-source options in the table.

Either way, as for the original question, I think the table looks alright. The only thing I'd suggest is adding a few more "popular" applications under Windows/Mac. That way the user may recognize their application.

Have a great day:)
Patrick.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulrich M. Tillich" <utillich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Patrick Dickey" <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ubuntu-manual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2011 8:43:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Linux alternative apps page(s)

Hi,

Sadly some people like myself need the proprietary Acrobat reader. 
Evince is not able to open some documents, see 
hhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720

The reader is in the partner repos btw, and it can be directly installed 
through the software center.


cheers,
Uli

On 03/04/2011 07:43 PM, Patrick Dickey wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I use Skype, but haven't tried any of the Open Source VOIP apps to see if they work with it (or are better).  If they don't work with Skype (and especially if they don't have versions for other Operating Systems) then we may need to mention it as well.
>
> An alternative to mentioning the proprietary applications is to make a note at the bottom along the lines of "Check with the providers of your current applications to see if they have a Ubuntu/linux version available."
>
> Have a great day:)
> Patrick.
>
> P.S. I will take a look at the VOIP apps this weekend, to see how they compare to Skype (or interoperate with it).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "c7p"<c7p.admin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "ubuntu manual"<ubuntu-manual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 4, 2011 12:08:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Linux alternative apps page(s)
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> there is an issue with the license of the linux alternative apps. Well, since we are an open-source project and part of linux open source community i think we would better add only open source software and preferably free software and NOT proprietary software.
> For example picasa, skype, lotus office , Adobe Acrobat Reader are proprietary. For me picasa, lotus office, Adobe Acrobat Reader can't provide me more than open source alternative apps can do. I don't use VoIP so i don't know if Skype is irreplaceable.
>
> What do you think ?
>
>
> --John
>
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