Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 211.24.237.3]
on December 05, 2008 02:47 AM
I have been installing and using go-oo for God know how long ever since I switched to Ubuntu and prior to that on SLED and OpenSUSE. Generally I don't find any difference between the stock OO.o and go-oo except when I work with MS Office documents; go-oo seems to be more capable. Also, Sun borked the Quckstarter on Linux. If it was not for the go-oo folks, it would not have worked.
For those of you who don't trust Novell any more because of the MS deal, you will have to start living in the real world. Deals are made everyday between companies, also, what is so bad about Mono and Silverlight? Are they not open sourced? MS is the biggest software company in the world and like it or not, Free and Open Source stuff need to work with MS products before it can even get noticed by Microsoft-hardened people. Amiga is a great OS, but where is it now? Don't hate the idea/concept/framework just because it came from a proprietary company. Man, I don't see so much objection even when Java was closed source by Sun. Good ideas do come from both ends of the spectrum.
Call it what you want, dealing/dancing/sleeping with the devil; fact is MS rules in most companies. Free and Open Source software must work in tandem with them. So shall we bad mouth Samba next?
The "actual" world runs heterogeneous systems, there is not one company (except possibly the vendors themselves) that runs everything on a single platform.
So if anyone don't trust Novell just because they pressed flesh and inked some agreement with the MS, get over it man. Don't be a zealot for the sake of being a zealot. If you are afraid that go-oo might "sneak" in some proprietary stuff, get hold of the code and read/audit it. Don't just say something, do something!
By the way, I do not work for Novell or get paid by them and am neither a fanboy of OpenSUSE. I am just upset that so much inaccurate accusations have been levelled at a company that has contributed a lot to the Open Source world.
If you need to know, I use Fedora/RHEL/Centos and Ubuntu. OpenSUSE doesn't feature in any of my computer.
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Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 211.24.237.3] on December 05, 2008 02:47 AMFor those of you who don't trust Novell any more because of the MS deal, you will have to start living in the real world. Deals are made everyday between companies, also, what is so bad about Mono and Silverlight? Are they not open sourced? MS is the biggest software company in the world and like it or not, Free and Open Source stuff need to work with MS products before it can even get noticed by Microsoft-hardened people. Amiga is a great OS, but where is it now? Don't hate the idea/concept/framework just because it came from a proprietary company. Man, I don't see so much objection even when Java was closed source by Sun. Good ideas do come from both ends of the spectrum.
Call it what you want, dealing/dancing/sleeping with the devil; fact is MS rules in most companies. Free and Open Source software must work in tandem with them. So shall we bad mouth Samba next?
The "actual" world runs heterogeneous systems, there is not one company (except possibly the vendors themselves) that runs everything on a single platform.
So if anyone don't trust Novell just because they pressed flesh and inked some agreement with the MS, get over it man. Don't be a zealot for the sake of being a zealot. If you are afraid that go-oo might "sneak" in some proprietary stuff, get hold of the code and read/audit it. Don't just say something, do something!
By the way, I do not work for Novell or get paid by them and am neither a fanboy of OpenSUSE. I am just upset that so much inaccurate accusations have been levelled at a company that has contributed a lot to the Open Source world.
If you need to know, I use Fedora/RHEL/Centos and Ubuntu. OpenSUSE doesn't feature in any of my computer.
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