Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT.
Having tried OO, I can honestly say that OO is more user intuitive and
an absolute joy to work in. The issue isn't having an MS Office
clone--heaven forbid, unless you happen to like self-torture--but
compatibility...which OO seems to have with MS documents of all
kinds...so far. However, as per my previous response, backwards
compatibility is a must for me to archaic--very archaic--formats.
Forward compatibility is and will be, likewise, critical.
Dawn
D. L. Keur, zentao.com
On 1/7/2013 2:23 PM, John Hart wrote:
On 1/7/2013 3:05 PM, Hagar Delest wrote:
AOO is not a MS Office clone. If you want to work in .doc, then use
MS Office. Their file format has never been designed to be compatible
with anything else than MS Office.
The MS Office file formats have been reverse engineered. If you find
another application that does better, then go for it.
If you want to use proprietary formats that locks your own data, just
do it. But the key point nowadays is to use true open formats like ODF.
Hagar
Amen. Closed source programing is the Achilles heel of the information
age and one of the greatest unforeseen dangers to modern societies. A
way of funding open source projects would be for governments to give
people tax credits for doing so.
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