On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 07:16:18PM +0000, Steff wrote: > 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.
Wow, really? So what does MS Office's do, then, actually set your documents on fire or something? Not only has Open Office's autorecover never actually recovered anything for me, but the way that it pops up when you happen not to have OpenOffice open and then you make the foolish mistake of trying to open an OpenOffice document is hateful. Apparently OpenOffice confuses itself with an operating system, and so the act of trying to open up a word processor document must by necessity involve a great amount of trumpets, fanfares, and of course, the Ritual Of Recovering Documents. And if there are multiple documents that it deems worthy of Recovery, it will of course open every single one of them. Suddenly your innocent act of opening up a spreadsheet has turned into a battle with the Hydra. Lord help you if you decide you don't care about some document or other and delete it, and OpenOffice decides to recover it for you. It'll be trying to recover that document lo until the end of the ages, and there's no way to tell it you simply don't care about that document any more. > 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. No, it's a hatefully-crappy poorly-implemented implementation of a half-assed misunderstanding of the otherwise sound concept of "crash-only software". --Dave
