The problem with F/OSS office suites is that their audience tends to be uncritical, so much as in the fairy tale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (but in inverse), professionals have stopped listening.
I remember at least three incidents where I was instructed to evaluate Open Office, Libre Office or other F/OSS word processing or layout packages. In each instance, the F/OSS products fell short in fundamental ways, and were a total disaster for larger documents. Their main strength was that it was often easier to ex
Maybe. And maybe I just haven't used OpenOffice diligently enough. But I prefer the section tags of Word 98 to OpenOffice. I can't talk about any later versions of MSWord, however, as I've never used them. (And at that point MSWord was going downhill from version to version. The best version of MSWord I ever used was a version that I used on a Mac LC II. In many ways it was superior to the current version of Open Office (if you got the correct version...prior and later versions tended to crash unexpec
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The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:5, Interesting)
The problem with F/OSS office suites is that their audience tends to be uncritical, so much as in the fairy tale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (but in inverse), professionals have stopped listening.
I remember at least three incidents where I was instructed to evaluate Open Office, Libre Office or other F/OSS word processing or layout packages. In each instance, the F/OSS products fell short in fundamental ways, and were a total disaster for larger documents. Their main strength was that it was often easier to ex
Re:The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:2)
What are you talking about? Word is famous for crashing on huge documents, especially master documents. OO is great for large documents.
OO has fundamental advantages over MS Word for large documents, including the fact that it has page styles while Word does not.
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Maybe. And maybe I just haven't used OpenOffice diligently enough. But I prefer the section tags of Word 98 to OpenOffice. I can't talk about any later versions of MSWord, however, as I've never used them. (And at that point MSWord was going downhill from version to version. The best version of MSWord I ever used was a version that I used on a Mac LC II. In many ways it was superior to the current version of Open Office (if you got the correct version...prior and later versions tended to crash unexpec