Re: OpenOffice

I'm not sure I care about the size of programs that perform bedrock functions. In the past, we had to deal with spaghettied up code in applications that matured but never died. With open source code that issue seems to be cleaned up.

My OO's spreadsheets do some amazing stuff. Complex graphing isn't an issue.

Stale comments about open source code are meaningless. For example, Mozilla Sunbird is the calendar application that is targeted at Microsoft Outlook. It is in a very early stage of development. It doesn't do all that Outlook does, at least not today. Tomorrow it will, and more. But take a snapshot now, form an opinion and months later express that opinion and you'll find you know not of what you speak. I tried OO a number of times in its earlier reincarnations. It just didn't work well. Thunderbird was never a match for Outlook until recently. These packages are dynamic. You often find updates weeks apart. I run the nightly compilations of Sunbird. Every night there is a new feature, code tweak or bug fix ... and sometimes a new bugs.

Open source is where its at. You can't pay a building full of programmers enough to compete against a global community of people who code because they enjoy it.

Steve
www.wolfswords.com under the motorhome link

OpenOffice is a decent prgm considering it's free but the suite is an all-in-one application and I seem to remember it's >100M in size.

The installer is but so? Not all that gets installed. Besides, Winders programs are
big. Hard drives are cheap. RAM is cheap. Get over it. Even downloading it was
manageable over dial-up. I just turned NetTransport loose on it and let it run for a
few hours.

I tried it out once and found out in the spread*** app, it was pretty piss poor in it's ability to do graphs and charts. Seem to recall someone telling me some of the other apps were also lacking beyond the basic functions.

Rumors, rumors.... How many years ago was it that you tried it? I tried StarOffice
.

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