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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.co.uk>]

Hi,

It's great and very important to promote FOSS, but my thinking is that 
if you want to reach the average Windows user that barely knows how to 
use their machine (and remember that zip functionality is built in it 
Windows) then making them download yet more applications to clog up 
their HDD's as well as add a layer of complexity doesn't help OpenNIC or 
them.

They need it to 'just work'. If it doesn't, then there's less point in 
making an application to change the resolvers for them in the first 
place.
It's like helping someone halfway across the road and then leaving them 
there.

Just my thoughts...

Peter

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:16:43 -0600, Futuro wrote:

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> Also, programs like 7-Zip[1] are freely available (and under a F/LOSS
> license) for windos. 7-Zip is a fantastic piece of software. 
> Switching
> to .zip doesn't make much sense when there are good alternatives
> available.
>
> - -F
>
> [1] http://www.7-zip.org/ [5]On 02/29/2012 07:18 PM, Maximi89 wrote:
>
> > 2012/2/28 Peter Green > __ Hey Mike, Great work! I just thought I'd 
> > say
> > that as it's aimed at Windblows users, it might be better as a .zip
> > file not a .tar. gz, what do you think? various softwares 
> > compressors
> > like ALZIP knows this kind of files, so i guess there is no problem
> > with this, and we make more this way more known the .tar.gz
> > compression, because .zip algorithm are private.... why promote
> > something close like .XLS or DOC files when you can promote open 
> > files
> > like ODS... Also, i noticed a couple of typo's in the README, which
> > also doesn't have the .txt extension, which I believe is needed for
> > Windblows to recognise it? Peter On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:44:40 -0500,
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> > > Release a new beta. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennicwizard 
> > > [1]
> > > - Fixes a dead-lock issue in the service side which would cause the
> > > task tray gui to become non-responsive. -Mike
> > -- Maximiliano Augusto Castañón Araneda Santiago, Chile Linux user #
> > 394821 Skype: maximi89 MSN: maximi89 AT gmail.com [3] 
> > maximi89 AT gmail.com>
> > XMPP/Jabber: maximi89 AT gmail.com [4]maximi89 AT gmail.com>
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Links:
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[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennicwizard
[2] mailto:peter AT greenpete.co.uk
[3] mailto:maximi89 AT gmail.com
[4] mailto:maximi89 AT gmail.com
[5] http://www.7-zip.org/