-
Join the MyBroadband community
South Africa’s biggest forum. Discuss, discover, and connect with thousands of members.
-
Question of the Day: What is your non-negotiable item, device, or app for international travel?
OpenOffice Afrikaans now available
- Thread starter rpm
- Start date
gregmcc
Honorary Master
Uitstekend!
phoneJunky
Executive Member
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2009
- Messages
- 6,767
- Reaction score
- 538
Ek weet nie of ek vir 'n produk sal betaal wat verniet is net omdat dit Afrikaans is nie.
Kloofvreter
Honorary Master
Hahaha
BravoFox
Well-Known Member
Afrikaans is my eerste taal, maar ek sukkel om met Afrikaanse programme te werk. Die terme is net te vreemd en somtyds lagwekkend.
Kloofvreter
Honorary Master
Korrek, wanneer dit by tegniese gesprekke kom, is Engels makliker.
Smiley_lauf
Expert Member
Guys, this is the freedom of OSS--but, why sell the product at a premium. if you download OOo (local mirrors such as www.mirror.ac.za) change the language to Afrikaans during setup? or if not then I think there is an add-on language pack that you could download,also for Free as in mahala-free. My 10c.
IcemanMike2010
Well-Known Member
Ek wonder of OpenOffice, "OopKantoor" genoem gaan word?
Skerminkel
Expert Member
Tx for that comment, YsmanMichiel! I guess the golf you drive is made by Peoplescarriage?
I have been using various applications in Afrikaans, including Openoffice and Firefox. After a few days you don't even notice the difference.
news24
Expert Member
Screw the guys at Translate.org.za, They charge R385 for OOo? They should contribute to the OpenOffice project instead of profiteering from it. A lot of people have given a number of free hours to make OpenOffice a great product that it is today, now you have freeloaders from Translate.org.za wanting to make a quick buck.
Smiley_lauf
Expert Member
My punt exactly.
There is a Zulu version and Xhosa version for those multi-linguals.
Translate.org.za (Dwayne Bailey) ARE the guys that have done by far the majority of the Open Source translation work for OOo, Firefox, etc. In Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa etc.
What is being discussed here is a physical boxed version which likely also includes support.
I have much respect for great achievements of the Translate.org.za guys.
gerasmus
Well-Known Member
Waarom zichzelf alleen beperken tot Afrikaans ? Waarom gebruik jullie dan geen Nederlandstalige programmas ? Ik gebruik Windows 7, en al mij andere programmas (ook MS Office 2007) in Nederlands. Afrikaanssprekedes denk van nederlands als 'n 'onverstaanbare taal'. Jammer. Jullie verloren. Waarna jij ook al zoek, met 'n .nl
news24
Expert Member
If its not their intend to profiteer, then, like a reasonable non-profit organization that they are, they should make it available for download for those of us that don't want a box full of manuals or their telephonic support.
To move from OOo (R0.00) to Translate.org.za OOo(R385.00) is a major leap, what's the percentile increase? How could they even justify that price?
R385 for a manual, cds, support not to mention the hundreds of hours of hard work that has gone into the translation tools (which incidently are helping the whole of Africa get software into different languages) is not a bad deal. Go for it translate.org - you are doing outstanding work!!!!!!
Ek weet nie van die ander nie, maar ek gebruik wel Nederlandse programme. Natuurlik verkies ek Afrikaans, maar sal eerder 'n Nederlande program/vertaling bo 'n Engelse weergawe verkies.
news24
Expert Member
How many hundreds of hours have gone into making OpenOffice? Translate.org.za guys are freeloaders who make a mockery of Free Software. How much does it cost to buy and brand 1 CD?
You must be part of Translate.org.za. R385 is a bad deal, a very bad one, how the fsuk are they helping Africa when they are charging almost US $50 for a free product, when many people across Africa are struggling to afford a basic computer. R385 is unjustifiable , they should make OOo free for download for those who don't want their manual, cd or support, until then, they are profiteering @#%%^!^~^%&*.
How many hundreds of hours have gone into making OpenOffice? Translate.org.za guys are freeloaders who make a mockery of Free Software. How much does it cost to buy and brand 1 CD?
You must be part of Translate.org.za. R385 is a bad deal, a very bad one, how the fsuk are they helping Africa when they are charging almost US $50 for a free product, when many people across Africa are struggling to afford a basic computer. R385 is unjustifiable , they should make OOo free for download for those who don't want their manual, cd or support, until then, they are profiteering @#%%^!^~^%&*.
You fail to realise that so much more went into this product than just branding. Translate.org.za does more for translation and localisation of OpenOffice and general open source for South Africa and our official languages than any other group or groups of people. See the R385 as a donation to cover their development/translation/localisation costs.
Note that you are free to download Open Office and all related localisation/translation parts included in this package for free, as all of translate.org.za's products are released under an open source license.
Your argument is baseless.