----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Byfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [users] Which MS Office is OpenOffice Equivalent To?
> Jonathon Blake wrote: > > > Bruce wrote: > > > > > >>Anyway, what's been added to MSO in the last few versions that makes a eight year old version significantly lacking? > > > > > > DRM > > Collaborative Document Creation > > Document Authentication > > Unicode support has gotten better. > > Exactly. Despite all the hype about some of these features, it's not a > very impressive list. Moreover, aside perhaps from Unicode support, > relatively few people want or use these features, either. > > Meanwhile, basic functionality languishes. And I won't even mention > features that a large number of users might actually want, such as page > design capability. I think that OOorg has more basic functionality than most people need. I often write documentation (of software) with OOorg which is then published as PDFs for those of my contacts that don't use OOorg. I have never really tried out the HTML output, though. You just have to know that the logics and the philosophy behind OOorg is very different to MSO. I've been using OOorg (formerly StarOffice from StarDivision) for about 10 years! > > -- > Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 > http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
