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> A scanner still relies on macOS so, even though it's a virtualised macOS instance running atop Linux, it's still macOS. Many people believe this violates the macOS license. Do you have a different read on it? https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1014.pdf
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I'm not the only one at my co that has experienced it BSODing. Windows generally BSODs on work machine at least once a week. Windows 10 patched monthly, locked down as hard as a machine can be under Windows. 30 plus years of Windows tech has taught me not to trust it with anything important.
If you have a system that is experiencing BSODs on the order of once a week, you have a _serious_ problem that is absolutely atypical of normal Windows behavior. Blaming the operating system hasn't brought you to a solution, perhaps the issue lies elsewhere.
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Trial lawyers need to format their legal documents to a specific set of guidelines and file them with the court. That isn't what a wiki is for.
Wiki is marked up text. So it would be translated into a document guaranteed to meet those guidelines with no extra effort. That is exactly what a wiki is for.
Excellent article. I would like to read a line or two explaining how this law-firm contributes to the F/LOSS community.
I disagree. Lawyer and Linux user since downloading Slackware 1.x from tsx11 many moons ago. 1. Libreoffice is still not comparable to Word 6 (circa 93). 2. Outlook - With several dozen lines of VBA, and a little customization, Outlook becomes a full blown case management system. 3. Acrobat Pro. 4. Fujitsu SnapScan - Scanner that every (smart) small firm uses. Not Twain. Linux drivers exist, but functionality isn’t t…
And it can't be, because Microsoft does not allow that to happen.
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This a weird argument; It's like asking why graphic designers use Photoshop instead of coming up with their own image manipulation application. Word is literally the top-tier application for developing documents and lawyers are using it for exactly what it's designed for.
If graphic designers were collaboratively editing images where change management was critical and every pixel had to be manually inserted to generate a very specific meaning I suspect that they would come up with their own format and associated applications.
Heck, a lot of lawyers actually dictate their work instead of typing themselves.
> I'm struggling with a couple of bits on my mobile device, but my goal is to move away from my iPhone once I've resolved them. I'm close.
I wonder if they are going to switch to GNU/Linux phones.
Also a lawyer here, I think the biggest hurdle is MS Word. MS word is the defacto IDE of the law world. We spend most of our time in Word. The drafting of documents won't be a problem with libre office. You can send a PDF to the client. But working with other lawyers/parties could be a challenge. I am not certain how Libreoffice could handle a 500 page memo being worked by 50+ people including thousands of track chan…
> Also a lawyer here, I think the biggest hurdle is MS Word. MS word is the defacto IDE of the law world. We spend most of our time in Word. > The drafting of documents won't be a problem with libre office. You can send a PDF to the client. > But working with other lawyers/parties could be a challenge. I am not certain how Libreoffice could handle a 500 page memo being worked by 50 This is addressed in the article ac…
Personally, in that situation, if I really didn't want to use Windows for everything (and I've barely used Windows for the past 10 years), I'd probably get a Windows system for running Word and any other necessary Windows software and have my computer system of choice for everything else. In the grand scheme of things, computers are cheap these days.
(Or as someone else commented, run Windows in a VM. Though I might consider even that to be potentially unpredictable as a platform that my entire business essentially depended on.)
> A scanner still relies on macOS so, even though it's a virtualised macOS instance running atop Linux, it's still macOS. Many people believe this violates the macOS license. Do you have a different read on it? https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1014.pdf
It does not. As long as you own the physical hardware you are okay to install on virtualized hardware.
"The grants set forth in this License do not permit you to, and you agree not to, install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so."
has anyone here used decoded.legal? They do appear from time to time in articles on theregister. Would be tempted to try their services at some point.