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Well... two years on and it seems to me that the only people praising Openoffice can only be those who haven't had the pleasure of trying to do anything advanced with it. Experience soon teaches you that the api must be one of the biggest piles of dung heaped upon the computing fraternity ever, although perhaps beaten into second place by its documentation. Trying to do what would be simple operations accomplished in minutes in MS Office can take days or even weeks in OO - entirely due to an appallingly bad design and an architecture which must have been designed by cretins, documented by two men and a donkey. The result is that you can get it for free, but for many its going to cost you far more than you budgeted for in the longer term. What a pity, it didn't have to be this way.

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