Personally I agree. OOo needs to improve based on what the users want. This is one of the advantages of Open Source software in that it traditionally does move in the direction that users want it to move in.
However again, with Open Source software, it is normally playing catchup (apart from those noticeable exceptions where it is already the leader) and therefore it needs to reduce the learning gap between the market leader and the Open Source product. This is where the mimic'g of the market leader comes in. The short and curly is - bring on the features that people want regardless of whether they are in some other office suite or not. Just my $0.02 worth... /paul On 11/9/05, Lars Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > what do you think of: > > "With each new office suite and word processor release we become more > concerned that software companies like Sun Microsystems, Corel, and even > community projects like OpenOffice.org are more interested in competing with > Microsoft Office than they are in developing excellent software. The new > features and enhancements in each release are all about doing what Word does > or mimicking Excel. Why not just worry about adding features and > improvements that users want, rather than play catch-up with Microsoft? > > StarOffice 8 leaves us with that catch-up feeling. It is a good office > suite -- better than Microsoft Office for the money, and better technically > in many ways -- but it's trying too hard to be like the market leader. We'd > rather see an intelligently designed office suite with a fresh approach than > one that can do everything that Microsoft Office can." > > http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/23/198225.shtml > > > bottom line: add features users want rather than mimick Microsoft > > > cheers, Lars > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
