Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 12, 2007 12:41 AM
For the life of me I don't understand why people here are raggin' on OpenOffice. Have we come to take for granted the great applications at our disposal? OpenOffice is the kind of application that a Linux guy can actually have a flicker of hope of getting a Windows guy to look at and use.
When it comes to building the better mousetrap, which we see again and again and again in the Open Source world (just how many Java web application frameworks does the world need?), I like to think that survival of the fittest is at work. If something is notably better than the alternative, it has a greater chance of being incorporated into future distros and winning hearts and minds. This is a very good thing in my opinion, and if Scribes manages to fill part of the computing spectrum better than its would be peers, good on it!
But please, no more bad mouthing OpenOffice until other options are at least as mature. And do consider that if you want great formatting and layout, you shouldn't be relying on a word processor anyway but rather a desktop publishing solution such as Scribus (no relation to Scribes).
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Re:What's the point of this?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 12, 2007 12:41 AMFor the life of me I don't understand why people here are raggin' on OpenOffice. Have we come to take for granted the great applications at our disposal? OpenOffice is the kind of application that a Linux guy can actually have a flicker of hope of getting a Windows guy to look at and use.
When it comes to building the better mousetrap, which we see again and again and again in the Open Source world (just how many Java web application frameworks does the world need?), I like to think that survival of the fittest is at work. If something is notably better than the alternative, it has a greater chance of being incorporated into future distros and winning hearts and minds. This is a very good thing in my opinion, and if Scribes manages to fill part of the computing spectrum better than its would be peers, good on it!
But please, no more bad mouthing OpenOffice until other options are at least as mature. And do consider that if you want great formatting and layout, you shouldn't be relying on a word processor anyway but rather a desktop publishing solution such as Scribus (no relation to Scribes).
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