On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:11:53 +0300, Alexandro Colorado put fingers to keyboard and said:
> Hi Greg, please understand that openoffice.org is **NOT** a MSO clone. That > means that no, we won't have all the features, neither are we thinking on > implementing them. Also means that we think about higher scalability and care > less about creating backward compatibility at the cost of innovation or > improving the way we do things. Quoting from http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html "OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software." "If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1." Either of those statements, when taken alone (especially the second), could be taken as a statement that "OOo is a clone of MSO". It is not, IMHO, reasonable to make those 2 claims and then tell folks that "we don't have all the features and we're not thinking of implement them" Don't get me wrong, OOo is a FANTASTIC product, but for many of us, until it's "bug for bug compatible*", it's not going to be a wholly viable product. Bruce *of cource I don't mean that literally :-) -- +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ Bruce Bowler | He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to 1.207.633.9600 | pieces. - Mae West [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
