https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50299
--- Comment #24 from k...@cox.net --- 2015-01-21, thinking about doing income taxes soon, installed Open Office 4.1.1, Gnumeric 1.12.6, and Calligra Sheets 2.7.2 and determined that this problem exists in all but Calligra Sheets; however a related problem with the DATE() function (bug 87386) exists in all of them (Calligra sheets has better Paste Special, but a lot of other problems). The Excel spreadsheets I've used for past years' taxes have definitely made use of the DATE() and MOD() functions, but Excel gives the correct answers. If you believe that if the I.R.S. found an error in a return, they'd accept the excuse "I used OfficeLibre/Open Office/Gnumeric/Calligra Sheets, which has bugs that can result in calculation errors with some functions", dream on... I very quickly noticed that although there are problems with OpenOffice Calc that do not exist in LibreOffice Calc, the two versions are pretty much the same (not a surprise). People who use spreadsheet programs require the same things of them, so why are they separate, and why are still other open source spreadsheets out there (of the 10, excluding web based ones, listed by Wikipedia, several no longer exist)? Doesn't anyone in the open source community understand how incredibly inefficient it is for different groups of people to work on different programs that must do pretty much the same things in the same ways? By dividing itself, it allows itself to stay beaten. Engineers, accountants and doctors can't use computational software that has features that don't work properly. If a structural collapse or medication error kills people, or money is lost because financial calculations are wrong, our society will not accept software bugs as an excuse. Since LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Gnumeric and Calligra have been around for years, and all still give wrong answers, not only does there appear to be no suitable alternative to Microsoft Excel for serious spreadsheet use, but the resources being applied to creating one are being spread in so many different directions that none is likely to work in the foreseeable future. The result is that users who want to change to get away from the hook-them-and-then-soak-them philosophy of commercial software development and marketing, can't; they have no viable alternative. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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