Quoting Bruce Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
That is why we say you are 'locked in', since you don't have the
freedom to jump
from one app to the next. Same thing could be said of Windows vs. Mac. I dnt
think Mac want t be considered a windows clone (perhaps just a Unix one) ;)
Bruce
*of cource I don't mean that literally :-)
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