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Chad Smith wrote:Yeah, how many people have written the email list saying "I bought ____ Office and I had a question." They are finding out about the list somehow, therefore they are hearing about OOo (since the email addy is [email protected]). And most people on the list tell them how to get OOo for free. Paying $20 for information on how to get an office suite with free support and free upgrades for life isn't a bad deal.
True.
Well, there's not much use in complaining about it. It's the risk you take with open source. If you give people freedom, they may do things that you don't like. I think there is more harm done by people fighting "among themselves" than good. And I say "among ourselves" because, as has been pointed out, Lux, Perfect, et. al. get lumped into the same group as OpenOffice.org. Luxative Office isn't going to do anywhere near the "damage" to OOo as MSO is. The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Especially if they are actually OOo is disguise.
Lux is telling the truth, btw, when they say OOo can replace Adobe. If all you use Adobe for is to turn Word files into PDFs. It replaces *one aspect* of Acrobat. But, you are right, there is much more that Adobe can do that OOo cannot - like edit PDFs, for example.
Yeah, I suppose, but you can also just use PDFCreator for that. Maybe they should sell that. :)
There site led me to believe I could create forms and other complex PDF docs with OOo.
As far as Impress competing with Powerpoint - we make that claim ourselves. I agree that Powerpoint is much better (animations, audio, plug-ins, etc.), but we still promote Impress as a comparable presentation program. It's called marketing. You promote your strengths and ignore or "spin" your weaknesses. (An example of "spinning" our weaknesses - people swore up and down that it was *better* that OOo didn't have a database before it did, because it gave the user "more options and freedom" - can you believe that!?!?).
Boo.
"crap" programs. They are GIMP, Audacity, Blender, etc. - All great programs. It's really not a bad deal - it's just their attitude that stinks.
This is my main complaint. But, you are right, we can't stop or change it (probably) so I will move on (maybe). :)
Anyway, my 75 cents (man inflation sucks).
-Chad Smith
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