On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:10:46 +0100 Mark Harrison <m...@ascentium.co.uk> wrote:
> > From: Jacob Mansfield <cyberja...@gmail.com> > > of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$ > > > Couple of things: > > 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however the one time I > needed to was in 2007 for a really complex mailmerge, which is one area > where MSO is still better than OOo :-( > > There are lots of areas where OOo is genuinely better, in terms of > functionality, as well as being free (in the cash sense). Actually, it's not > quite Free in the OpenSource sense, if you read the Sun licence carefully > :-) > > > 2: I'm not sure you CAN do this in OOo - ie, create a link in a spreadsheet > that then creates a pre-populated document in Writer. This wasn't a question > about mailmerge, but about how to achieve a particular task. To be fair, I > don't think that mailmerge in MSO is the right answer either, but given the > user in question feels that mailmerge is too complex, I'm guessing that > telling them that it needs about 20 lines of VBA macros probably isn't going > to work either :-) > > > 3: If you asked a question about OOo, and someone replied "MSO can do this, > why the f*** would you use OpenOffice instead", would you: > > A: Feel that the respondent had a good point, and you should go out and try > MS Office. > > B: Feel that the respondent was a jerk, and that you wanted to steer clear > of the kinds of things he was recommending. > > > > The reason I bring this up is that I had a meeting with the IT Director of a > FTSE 100 company a couple of years ago, and that one of the things that came > up was OpenOffice as a possible replacement for MSO. > > The reply I got was "This is like Linux. I'm fed up of Linux people. They > come in and want to have a religious conversation. I want to have a business > conversation." > > > This over-the-top, "why the f**** would you" stuff is actually DRIVING > PEOPLE AWAY FROM LINUX. > > > If I ran for Microsoft's Dirty Tricks Division, then I'd pay people to join > LUG lists and post nasty comments about MS to make people feel that the > Linux community were nutters :-) > > > So, thanks for harming the spread of Free software. > > Negative publicity is still publicity, panning somebody else’s product rarely works. I’m (nearly :) always very careful about the claims I make about what OOo can do. It is not a drop in replacement for Office. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
