True Measurement of Success is I use it [LWN.net]

True Measurement of Success is I use it

Posted Oct 12, 2008 18:45 UTC (Sun) by dbmuse (guest, #54651)
Parent article: Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

I use OO at work. My employer supplies MSOffice but I avoid it. I use OO at home on my MAC. I
use it on Windows and Linux. Its better than MSOffice. This area of technology is a patent hot spot.
Sun needs to be careful. With MS buddies such as Novel trying to put VB and such in OO, its very
wise of Sun to triple check everything. I consider OO a success because of what it can do, how it
continues to improve and because I use and recommend it. I like Novel too, but since their deal
with the devil I have lost true trust in the Company. As an old CNE its sad sad to see Novel pushing
MS technology. I would of thought Novel would have used patents against MS who is the company
that truly ripped them off. Yes OO on MAC rocks. Thank you Sun. Thank you developers. One two
or however many there are.... :)

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True Measurement of Success is I use it

Posted Oct 12, 2008 19:49 UTC (Sun) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]

I am gratefull for the existance of OpenOffice too. I also see it used by quite a lot of people on Windows desktops. Altough I am not an office documents fan, I constantly need to exchange data with people using Microsoft formats, without OOO I would probably have to run a Windows session somehow.
While I find KWord very attractive and speedy, when it comes to doing work OOO is the tool to choose.

Another point is that I don't really need the latest and greatest features. Being functional, with a usable enough interface and bug-free is enough for an office application. Do not forget that in order to be compatible with everyone me and many other people always advise for using the old Word 97/XP format. ODF would just miss too many recipients; also, most Microsoft Office users I know are decent and considering enough not to send latest and greatest Microsoft formats to me. In many use cases, the world is not going to end if we don't use the latest and greatest technology.

I thank Sun for making this software available to us. As I said before, I know many Windows people using OOO. I think some corporate planning and avoiding open-source extremism makes OOO much more succesfull than other OSS projects, from the number of users p.o.v. at least, if not from that of the number of contributors.

True Measurement of Success is I use it

Posted Oct 12, 2008 20:13 UTC (Sun) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link]

So what in your eyes would be the problem with my girlfriend being actually able to open
and use certain Excel documents, she needs for her studying? Or more generally
speaking: with millions of potential users being able to open their existing
documents/applications?

Oh yes, of course. It's because of Novell's contributions on this sector. Same as why
the Linux kernel, X.org, KDE, Gnome, Evolution and many others are doomed and best
avoided...