The real question here is how does Linux scale video? Is it bicubic or nearest neighbor?
Running a Law Firm on Linux
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Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux
#182> "Exclusively" on Linux? > 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.
> I wonder if they are going to switch to GNU/Linux phones.
I've updated the post with a response and a link to some of the investigation I've done so far but, honestly, probably not - I can't make it work for my needs.
Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux
#183Why would law firms want to exchange documents in a dense, opaque format like Microsoft Word anyway? Legal documents are mostly about the actual words, not all the word processing stuff that Word is about. You would think that the legal world would of come up with their own application specific format by now.
Honestly, how bad would git be for handling that? I've worked on regulations for a governing body before using git, and it was fantastic for tracking proposed changes. You just submitted a PR.
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#184Also 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…
I also would think that Libre Office just wouldn’t cut it with all the track changes. It’s a bit of a shame that the industry is so cemented to Word, git is 1000 times superior than track changes IMO. But I understand that git has a bit of a technical hurdle that a lot of lawyers might struggle with.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I learned long ago to never send an editable format to anyone who's not going to edit it. Every device can open PDFs and see it exactly as it should be.
Mostly. Assuming you having the same font installed or embedded- to be sure about this you want to go further and use PDF/A
It's still much easier to create a cross-platform PDF that works on any device, than writing a document in LibreOffice and expect it to be 100% interoperable with Word, and viceversa.
In fact, I haven't created a broken PDF on any operating system in 15 years. Font embedding in PDFs is a solved problem.
Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
He says it has worked for him so far--with only minor issues. 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 a…
> He says it has worked for him so far--with only minor issues.
I'd say the same about Word. Mostly fine, but some minor issues, usually linked with auto-numbering getting in a fluster, or deciding to turn all the numbering into black blocks.
But I definitely prefer Word's flexibility for displaying tracked changes.
Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux
#187Also 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…
What about something like Office 365? Wouldn't this handle this problem just fine?
Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux
#188IIRC, UNIX started at Bell Labs as a legal document processing system. However, this was just an excuse for Ritchie to work on a game he liked on Multics
That was the excuse to sponsor the port into PDP-11 hardware, UNIX started on a PDP-7.
This is the correct answer according to Brian W Kernighan’s book “UNIX: A History and a Memoir” page 41
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
if only lawyers used git, sigh. fighting word is almost like fighting the system itself - some courts require filing in .doc!
Is Word the biggest mistake of computing ever? I get it, in 1980 when you are trying to get adoption of your obscure machine, it helps to emulate what is de vogue in the real world. But now it's 2021, and there is zero reason anymore for anyone to "layout a letter" or similar nonsense like that. Computers are everywhere and the key to efficient processes, but we are stuck using them to make facsimiles of the World ci…
I'm with you, but today most sr. attorneys & judges still print out all emails/documents to then redline. the legal field will need another 10-20 years before the foundation is present to even discuss removing Word.
Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux
#190Also 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…
Similar work profile, but: MS office is a huge pain to work with. 30 pages, 3 authors, comments, revi sions, deleted images, and it often crashs.
And track changes doesn't work on tables (!)
Mind: LibreOffice is properly worse, but that doesn't change that MS office is abyssmall.