On 31 Aug 2008 04:07:36 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:12:01 +0200, Marin Brkic wrote: > >> I remember an older coleague who said; "open, free and whatever licence >> type ... software is free, only up to some amount of $$/per hour". >> After that you just want things to work, and if they don't work, there >> are people who are paid $/per hour to make it work. > >And that applies *exactly* the same to Excel as OpenOffice, except that >you're not paying the cost for the software and the licences and tracking >the licences. > >If you can find a package that "just works" for writing to Excel, great. >Otherwise you have to build it yourself. And that's when you have to >decide whether you want to spend 40 hours of programmer time (less than >one programmer-week) trying to get write support for Excel in order to >save two hours of support time for OpenOffice. Steven, this really is going nowhere. If we continue down this path, both of us will waste time - for what - fighting for the sake of fighting. To save further ado, let's just stop the discussion here, and say, that for some mysterious-out-of-this-world reason, I cannot use OO alternative. I agree with some of your points, but sometimes things are not that simple. Best regards Marin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
