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A major advantage of them using Microsoft Windows and Office instead of the open source alternatives, is the high quality Greek internationalisation of the soft
by quasque 14y ago
A major advantage of them using Microsoft Windows and Office instead of the open source alternatives, is the high quality Greek internationalisation of the software. The same can not be said of the open source offerings.
- guard-of-terra 14y ago"The same can not be said of the open source offerings" [citation needed]
- rbanffy 14y agoPaying Greek translators to do the job (if there is a job to do) would probably be cheaper than the licencing costs alone.
- quasque 14y agoHere is one example of inferior Greek internationalisation: http://www.openoffice.org/el/ http://www.openoffice.org/el/ "We need your help to complete the translation of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 into Greek! "This note is in English because we have no one to translate it into your language. The links on the page will help you download and install OpenOffice.org 3.3.0, an older version of our product. It is missing many bug fixes, performance enhancements and even new features that are in Apache OpenOffice 3.4. "We would be happy to make Apache OpenOffice 3.4 available in Greek, but we need help completing the translation of the user interface." Whereas the latest version of Microsoft Office has a full and comprehensive Greek translation as standard, upon release, done by professionals.
- alexchamberlain 14y agoIf true, that would change very quickly. The Open Source software movement would get behind any country that decided they were going to use it exclusively.