[wplug] OpenOffice, StarOffice

[Lance Tost]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, John Harrold wrote:
> in my opinion, society :). they're the ones who allowed ms to become the
> defacto standard. microsoft simply provides the crack, their customers
> choose to smoke it. sure some people have smoke it to 'fit in', but it was
> poor forward thinking that led us to where we are today.

That wasn't what I was getting at.  What I meant was I don't think OO does 
such a bad job of exporting to MS format since Word 2003 Beta did a much 
better job of opening it than Word 2000... maybe Word 2000 is what is 
flawed here is what I'm saying.

> personally i think oo is buggy, slow, and unstable. i'm not quite sure who

Could be something else going on in your system... I've never had problems 
with it.

> i've suggested oo to people and have had most of them come back an complain
> about it crashing. after it crashes, i've had to delete the .oo directory
> in their home directory or it wont start again. configuring printers is a

Nope, never had to do this.

> pain in the ars. why should each user have to configure printers? why can i

I agree on this point.. 

> with cups or lprng, but that's just my opinion. to be truly offended, look
> at the fonts in their admin program:

Fonts in my printer admin window look just fine.  This might have 
something to do with the X fonts that you have installed (or don't have 
installed).

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>