Re: Debian-Lex mailing list
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in San Francisco. More response below.
On Saturday 31 May 2003 21:13, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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>
> Something else that I think that it is important for those involved in
> legal practice (particularly as lawyers, aka. attorneys, solicitors,
> counsel, barristers, whatever they are called in your part of the world)
> is to be able to access information about their clients and their files
> or matters from within various applications. You want, for example, for
> your trust accounting software to use the same information as the
> software that you use to print out labels for your files.
>
> Integrating various packages to interoperate and share data should be
> one of our first discussion topics I think. I do have a draft database
> schema which I will post to the list in a future message.
Very true. I would like to suggest that your project work with Open
Office.org ( OOo) to see if you can incorporate their docs the same way that
Time Matters incorporates Microsoft Word and WordPerfect docs. Time Matters
is a billing software product which also has a calendaring program and a case
management program included. I would have purchased Time Matters by now,
because I was told it runs natively in Linux (I use SuSE Pro 8.2) except for
the fact that Time Matters will not coordinate with OOo like it will Word and
WP. FLOSS has a strong future, and I see no reason to use proprietary
software which will not work with FLOSS.
BTW, I use SuSE mostly because my Linux guru friend uses it, and I am quite a
newbie, and so can't stray very far from beneath his wings. Also, SuSE is
good for a newbie like me because it seems to find new hardware right away,
without me having to do a whole lot. On the other hand, there is another
Linux guru on my floor at 580 California Street in San Francisco who is big
on Debian, so I am very well aware that Debian probably has a whole lot going
for it, too. This project, for example, is a create example of incredible
creativity. I will help you as much as I can.
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