Chad Smith wrote:
On 3/15/06, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But why would you ask as OOo is as different from MSO as
night is from day?
Maybe the night and day in early September in Northern Alaska. MSO and OOo
are very similiar. In fact, many use that very fact to "sell" OOo. Please
do not arrogantly insult users with your prograndizing lies.
OOo and MSO are both software packages that run on Windows that offer word
processing, spreadsheets, and presentation programs. They are both capable
of producing files that the other can open. They are both used to do
similar things - write reports, create memos, produce posters, make charts,
presentations, graphs, spreadsheets, fax cover letters, books, homework, the
list goes on and on. Some have suggested that they share a similiar user
interface - so much so that some have said it is easier to switch from an
older or current version of MSO to OOo than it will be to switch from an
older or current version of MSO to the next version of MSO.
They are far more similiar than they are different. Yes - OOo is free and
MSO is expensive. Yes - OOo is cross-platform and MSO is not (the Mac
version of MSO is a program especially writen for Mac - not a port). Yes -
OOo is open source, MSO is propriatary and closed. Yes - OOo uses a
different Macro language than MSO. None of that means they couldn't share a
flaw. And even if it did - that's no reason to insult a user and attempt to
make them look less intelligent than you. Please learn some social skills.
You are making OOo look bad - again.
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Chad, get a grip! They are indeed *similar* but that doesn't mean that
they share any of the vulnerable code. If this vulnerability was in some
base Windows dll that both programs used, then it is conceivable that
both programs would be affected, but even then it wouldn't be an OOo
vulnerability in particular, but a general Windows vulnerability that
would affect any program using those libraries.
To answer the OP's question: No. There is no particular reason to
believe that OOo is affected by these vulnerabilities.
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Rod
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