Re: Duhh..( Ping Frozzy, Kai, Rev and that other d00tchie...)

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:

[...]
OpenOffice isn't even remotely comparable to MS Office either,

How so? I have been using it for years and never had any compatibility
problems with MS Office users. I am aware it has some kind of
spread*** limitation but that really doesn't enter into it because I
don't use spreadsheets that big. I much prefer Open Office to MS office
and I use it on a daily basis.

<SNIP>

Well it sounds to me like maybe you should be using something like
Wordpad instead. Obviously you're not even remotely familiar with all
the functionality that MS Office is capable of. I mean on a VERY
BASIC level, word processing only, you could ~kind of~ compare the
two...but beyond that...sorry.

Let me know when that dribbling joke of an OCR, Tesseract, can match
the level of quality and functionality of Microsoft's, then maybe I'll
humor you with the next FAILURE of a rip off in the great big long
list of halfass alternatives that dribble along with OpenOffice. Sad
fact is I could easily name off more than a dozen high end features
that OpenOffice either doesn't have, doesn't have directly (ie they're
third party deals), or if they do have them they're not even remotely
comprable.

Sure, halfass might be okay for some people, especially if you never
even make use of what your software is capable of doing...the sad
thing though is that if you choose Linux you choose to drive blind...I
mean, you don't even KNOW what you're missing because you can't ever
see it to begin with. But hey, ignorance is bliss they say.
[...]

It's simple really:

What does it do? Sure, MS Office can do a hell of a lot more than
OpenOffice.

What do I want to do with it? Create and read documents. Occasionally use a
spread*** to do some calculations.

Does it satisfy my requirements? Yes, both do.

Suppose I want to use a legal version and don't want to mess around with
cracks: What does it cost? MS Office: Expensive, OpenOffice: Free.

Choice: OpenOffice.

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