2007/10/5, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 19:52 Fri 05 Oct , Harold Fuchs wrote: > > A little off topic .... > > > > I unfortunately found this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=480 > > > > Be interested in your thoughts. > > > OO on MS will never be able to compete with MS Office due to the > restrictive practices of MS in witholding information about the OS. > This information is needed if third party developers are to develop > applications that can rival Microsoft's own 'integrated' apps. > > Open Office has done an amazing job in producing an extremely powerful > suite of applications allowing everybody access to word processing, > spreadsheets etc. without having to spend a month's wages every year > keeping up to date. > > I run OpenOffice on Debian at home and at work, where I also run MS > Office on XP and my, admittedly unscientific, impression is that OO on > Linux runs much faster than MS Office on XP. > > Regards > -- > It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. > Joseph K
I don't think we'll see Mr Ou running OOo on a Linux distro anytime soon - wasn't it he (or perhaps it was his equally technically accomplished ZDNet blogger colleague Ed Botts) who complained that he was unble to download and install Ubuntu ? Freud would surely have found an explanation for this failure.... Henri
