Chad wrote:
> If you give people freedom, they may do things that you don't like.
With Luxutaive Office, the issue is their _misrepresentation_.
If I bought that office suite, after reading it was an MSClone, and
discovered that a spreadsheet that was vital to my business s wouldn't
run with it, I would think I was jipped.
>The enemy of our enemy is our friend.
When proverbs reflect reality, they are useful.
That one does not reflect reality.
> can do that OOo cannot - like edit PDFs, for example.
Yes, and no.
There is a tool that hooks into OOo, that can be used to edit PDFs,
even if they are "locked".
Do any OOo clones include that tool, with that function? Probably
not. [If they did, we can sic both the creator of that tool, and
Adobe on them.]
>before it did, because it gave the user "more options and freedom" -
can you believe that!?!?).
a) It sounds good.
b) There is more a more factual basis to that claim, than most pieces
of "accepted wisdom"
>(if it's not *actually* The Open CD).
Or GNU-Win, or whatever the other one is called.
xan
jonathon
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