John Stalberg squawked out on Thursday 12-Apr-2012@08:53:06 > > > 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 themselves?
Right, I should have said "MS Word at the time OOo was created". Still, they are all hideous. -- "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
