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I installed Libre office for a couple of clients who didn't want ms office, and they're over the moon with it. It even has a Visio equivalent, where you can actually edit Visio diagrams.
Open Office? meh. It's fallen too far behind libre.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, I switched to Libre from MS Office a couple of years back, and have to say it's damn good - and it does leave Open Office in the shade.
Unlike MS, it seems to focus on what users want to do instead of what the developer wanted to develop and marketers want to sell ... i.e. cloud cr@p on a subscription model. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Unlike MS, it seems to focus on what users want to do instead of what the developer wanted to develop and marketers want to sell ... i.e. cloud cr@p on a subscription model.
Exactly!
I, for one, will not be paying for any more mso licenses, not when the Libre guys are doing a so much better job.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The further takeover of Linux: a Windows desktop.
And I say, the sooner the better! Heck, even Windows 3.1 would be an improvement over the shyte offerings that Linux has.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Well, you can develop a new GUI for pretty much any Operating System. I wonder how easy it would be to port GEM[^] to Linux... 
Quote: was also supplied with a series of IBM PC-compatible computers from Amstrad
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I wonder how easy it would be to port GEM[^] to Linux...
I remember using that on an Atari!
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I used it on an Amstrad, until I wiped the hard drive and replaced DR-DOS with MS-DOS (3.something I think, or maybe 4).
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The new cutting-edge programming technology. COM based, of course.
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"The next project"? Singular?
Do you think everyone at Microsoft works on the same project, until it's done, one at a time?
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I'm winding down on a big refactoring project and have had some free time on my hands. The question was, how do I spend it? Well, glad you asked! I've heard a lot about 'fake news' these days and I started digging around. One thing led to another and before long I came across an article stating that Amazon has quietly shelved all books relating to the Holocaust that do not promote the traditional view I learned. Low and behold, it was true. To find out what the brouhaha was about I looked for one of the books that was dropped. It is titled "Debating the Holocaust - a new look at both sides" by Thomas Dalton. To see what all the fuss was about, I found an online copy and started reading it. Well now, I've only just gotten through the first chapter, I must say it makes a number of very intriguing points, raises some very interesting questions but, from what I've read so far, does not offer anything that resembles 'hate literature'. I'll keep reading and see what else it offers. The question is, did Amazon cave in to 'special interest groups' and this is another example of how our civil rights and liberties are slowing being distorted and curtailed? Stay tuned, I'll let you know once I've finished the book.
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This has the stench of SoapBox written all over it in many different ways. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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This post can easily get inappropriate for the lounge.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Wow, my first 'conspiracy book' and I think I just got 'flamed'.  Now, my curiosity is definitely tweaked I will definitely have to finish the book.
Cheers,
Ian
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Perhaps you don't comprehend that hate literature is, as often as not, wrapped up in honey. Essentially, build a large background of subtle denials. Then use them to reference one another to prove their point.
That, however, now leads right back to your post - perhaps the concept of fake news is. in actuality, your posting this as though said books were suppressed. That, alone, goes a long way to qualify as hate speech of its own. Just say "they" are suppressing some secret truth or taking away some right. "Special Interest Groups" - who are you bullshitting with that line? Who could you possibly mean? Nod. Wink. Wink. Perhaps your jackboots need some polish?
Your post, in it's special way, isn't up to the standards of the Soapbox. There, at least, we stand up and scream aloud!
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Lighten up and stop taking yourself so seriously. My original comment was intended as a light hearted banter on finally having some free time, the evils of fake news, Amazon and what certainly is my very first conspiracy book - without having your heated breath on my neck. Looks like RyanDev was bang on the money when he said this can easily get inappropriate. Now is a good time to bow out. Enjoy your day.
Cheers,
Ian
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There are hardly any left anymore.
But I have met two men that were in concentration camps.
I don't have any reason to doubt what they were telling me.
The only myth I know about is that they were closed in 1945.
I recommend a visit.
I've been to Buchenwald and I will bring my kids there when they are old enough.
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I think the question was about amazon removing books rather than the Holocaust.
Regarding the Holocaust itself, why are the 5 million dead Slavs never mentioned?
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Now, really, was it?
As for your other question, because noone's pushing it.
How many people knows about Holodomor?
There's a really big difference betweeen ignorance and outright denial.
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You gave the impression, by not responding to the OPs point, that you had missed it. 
Anyway, Holodomor, never heard of it, until now. These were the Tartars they wiped out was it? I heard they had ben targeted, didnt know the figures though. (just looked it up on wiki)
As for the Holocaust, of course Hitler explicitly supported Jewish emigration to Palestine: Haavara Agreement - Wikipedia[^]
Doesnt mean he was a Zionist per-se, but it does mean he didnt intend to kill them. So, why didnt it work? Read the small print: "The agreement provided a substantial export market for German factories in British-ruled Palestine" Right, OK, so the nation that 80 years earlier went to war with China so it could continue to sell its population Opium rejected the emigration of Jews from Germany probably because it would damage UK trade.
In fact the general resistance to accepting Jews fleeing Germany pre WWII was high: Google[^]
Patria was carrying about 1,800 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe whom the British authorities were deporting from Mandatory Palestine to Mauritius because they lacked entry permits[^]
more than 900 Jews fled Germany aboard a luxury cruise liner, the SS St Louis. They hoped to reach Cuba and then travel to the US - but were turned away in Havana and forced to return to Europe, where more than 250 were killed by the Nazis[^]
The Abandonment of the Jews - Wikipedia[^]
Things are never as black and white as history pretends.
For example, Fascist Italy did almost nothing about Jews, yet France, not only actively deported Jews to concentration camps (from Vichy France), also made the Zyklon-B used to gas them.
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Thank you Matt. Nice to see someone who does not get his pants in knot and does not lose all perspective. I am starting to get a notion of what all the brouhaha is about just by reading the comments being posted here.
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No worries, virtue is never as cheap as when accusing someone of being an anti-semite.
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To answer the question : no. Amazon is a private entity and as such can choose what they want to sell. We do not have the right to tell them what they can and can not sell. This means our rights and liberties have not been distorted or curtailed in the slightest in this case.
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