2008/1/20, John Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Open Office is an open source competitor (albeit very poor competitor) to > Microsoft Office. I have tried to use it as an alternative to MS Office, > but it just doesn't "cut the mustard".
I have used OpenOffice.org since version 1.0.3, before that I used MS Office (which I had to PAY for, believe it or not) which behaved more like a virus than an office suite. Since then my needs are a lot more advanced and I don't think I could make what I am doing these days to work at all with MS Office. On the other hand I guess my needs are not very common. Besides, MS Office needs so many plugins to work properly. One of the more remarkable things is that I need plugins for support for an international standard file format (ISO 26300:2006)! Amazing… And what's more amazing, which makes it even more impossible for me to use MS Office, is that there IS NO MS Office at all for my operating system! It doesn't seem to be any versions for free operating systems at all, actually. And still, I have to PAY for it?? Why would I pay for something that I can't even use in the first place? And if I want to modify the source code and recompile it, how can I do that? Especially since the source code doesn't seem to be available for download… So what will I actually GET for my money if I am stupid enought to buy the shit? No source code, no ISO 26300 support, no BSD support, no Linux support, no Solaris support, no nothing? Well, I know there are plugins and stuff for a few things, but still… And maybe there is a MAC version available, I don't know, I don't have a MAC anyway. What I experienced when I tested OpenOffice.org for the first time, was that some things that I couldn't do with MS Office, I could suddenly do with OpenOffice.org, and some things that were complicated to to with MS Office, was very simple to do with OpenOffice.org. But OK, OpenOffice.org could still be a LOT better than it is, but it's getting better for every new version. And it still needs to get a LOT faster. It's terribly slow at the moment, but as I understand it, something is being done to solve that problem too. Johnny Rosenberg Gloria Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, > I was just wondering what and how OpenOffice came to be on my computer? > I was running my Secunia today, and was told that I should upgrade my > OpenOffice. So I did, but I do not even know what it is, or how I got it. > I thought by the name of it, it was like Microsoft Office, but apparently > it is not. > > Please help me by explaining this to me. > Thank you > Gloria Stevens > > > > John Shelton > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
