On 11 apr 2012, at 07:36, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nathan Sims squawked out on Tuesday 10-Apr-2012@18:51:47 > >> Is there a good, modern, working alternative to Word? OpenOffice? > > I use Pages and an quite happy with it. It's a lot more stable than Word. I > think the failure of OOo and variants is they are trying too hard to be exact > clones of MS Office. If I wanted MS Office, I'd use MS Office. Obviously, I > don't want that, so an exact clone of it to me just sucks. LibreOffice is the fork of OpenOffice.org of today. I don't use Word or any Office suit myself but I know this much, neither of OO.o nor LibreOffice even tries to mimic MS Office or specifically MS Word. Microsoft is and know has been using their ribbon graphical interface for their Office suit for some time now and I can't imagine the FOSS variants would try and take that concept and implement themselfs? I can't relly tell if the Ribbon stuff is percived as being good but in a test worthy of its name I doubt it? If I'm correct and specifically if someone of you don't like the ribbon toolbar you get something else by using any non MS or any non ribbon if there exist a version that incorporate it outside of MS control? The history has certainly been a chase after MS Office. That was the whole point from the beginning. Nowdays I belive LibreOffice tries hard to be compatible with MS new fileformat they shoved down the throath of the many different national standards org's around the world and managed to really do the image of "big American corp's visiting a freindly country" harm in their shameful act. I wouldn't use their Office suit even if were much better than any other suit. They have hijacked my countrys (Sweden) standards organisation working group (and many other counties standard orgs working group in parallell) when they (the standards orgs working group) were up to vote on the new MS XML fileformat, and that make me pissed! But that's a bit off topic. At least if one doesn't weight in any moral background in a companys products. To be honest, my boycot isn't that very hard to stand behind since I seems to end up not using the MS Office anyway ;) You will find LibreOffice as the preinstalled office suit in major GNU/Linux distros such as Ubuntu and a few more today. It is that mature since it was forked from an allready mature code base. // John Stalberg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
