Since you bring up hype, I've not seen so much hype about OOo, but maybe
I'm looking on the wrong lists or forums. Most review articles merely
state some of the main advantages and disadvantages that the author finds
important. Most of the hype, I've seen comes from the MS camp (i.e.
anti- closed source AND anti- open source). It's seldom praise of current
versions, usually about how the next version will solve every thing.
One glaring omission has been any recent coverage of the digital
restrictions managment capabilities in the new MS formats, software
packages, and operating systems (to include patches to the old ones). Nor
has there been any discussion of how these components are tied together
and what kind of server support is needed to keep editing.
OOo 2 is a very, major improvement over OOo 1 and MS Office, at least on
the Macintosh, that includes speed. I'm with Ian or whoever said it first
that I too would like to see the focus for OOo3 development to be
improvements in speed and a reduction in system requirements.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Andrew Brown wrote:
[snip]
If I wrote about tech stuff more, I
would be seriously rude about OOo, not becaseu it is a bad programme, but
because the gap between hype and delivery is so immense.
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