Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Ann Barcomb wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
Ah yes. OpenOffice is the open source alternate hate to Microsoft Office
hate.
It's so easy to hate OpenOffice, because they made it work and look
like Microsoft Office, only slower. I hate the UI, I hate the way it
And don't forget crashing more. It's an engineering achievement in
itself to crash more than Redmondware.
The autorecover feature, however, does seem to work much more reliably
than MS Office's. This apparent point in OpenOffice's favour is of
course in itself a hateful thing, indicating as it does a horribly
fatalistic attitude to crashing bugs.
ObExtraHate: jmerely wanting to be familiar to users of MS Office
doesn't make reproducing the 16-bit limit on number of lines in a
spreadsheet (which I believe even MS has abandoned now) a good plan.
S
