Well I am back with second part of my last post.
Firstly let me apologise for a small error, you might have noticed if you had done some fact finding.
In the list of free office suites I had mentioned 'STAR OFFICE'. Well this office suite is not free, it used to be free few years back, but is not free anymore.
In this context, I would also like to mention that both Star Office & IBM Lotus Symphony are actually based on OpenOffice. So essentially they are similar with different interfaces.
Now ...
During a conversation with one of my company superintedent regarding the usage of computers onboard ships, it struck me why not use free softwares on board ships for general purpose jobs. I kept on thinking about pros & cons about setting up computers with freewares readily available.
First, Let us see a real life scenario. A ship with following computers -
1) Bridge Computer with email Setup.
2) Master's Cabin Computer.
3) Chief Engineer's Cabin Computer.
4) Loadicator Computer in CCR.
5) Comp...
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