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What's all the fussing about?What's all the fussing about?Posted Jan 17, 2013 13:43 UTC (Thu) by tcabot (subscriber, #6656)Parent article: A discordant symphony
(meta: I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious)
From all this fussing over the Symphony code base you'd get the impression that it was a true MSOffice killer suite, and that both open source suites will get a big boost from incorporating it in their code. On the other hand, Lotus Symphony as a commercial product didn't seem to make much headway in the market. Is there a page somewhere that explains how the Symphony code will make OpenOffice/LibreOffice better? What features does it have to justify all this noise? Or is it just an excuse for two groups with some pre-existing bad blood to snipe at one another?
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What's all the fussing about? Posted Jan 17, 2013 23:38 UTC (Thu) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link]
There are apparently some useful features in IBM Lotus Symphony, however I did not try it recently.
You can get a copy of the latest version from
The license for IBM Lotus Symphony is http://goo.gl/eyio2
Make LibreOffice better Posted Jan 25, 2013 23:05 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
Imho the only thing that will satisfy the PHBs is for any competitor to be an EXACT clone of Word et al.
imho even WordPerfect SIX was much better than Word is today. For those who don't remember, that was a DOS/Win3.1 product - before even the Windows Operating System.
At the end of the day, "nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft". Until we can change that, NOTHING will be the killer feature you're looking for.
IF/WHEN LibreOffice/OOo can clone the "reveal codes" feature from WordPerfect that, imho, will be a killer feature, but not enough on its own to break the MS-Windows/MS-Office monopoly.
Cheers,
Make LibreOffice better Posted Jan 27, 2013 16:23 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
Reveal codes seem, to me, to be "show invisibles" but for the markup such as font changes and such? The first search results are all of the "they're gone, what do we do?" And seem to assume you know what it is already. I don't know what I'd use it for other than me being OCD and I'd probably just ask myself "why am I not using TeX?". Care to explain what you've found so useful about it?
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