[brlug-general] Is OpenOffice just "good enough"?

[Dustin Puryear]

No, I think that question was pretty good. While I think that the F/OSS
model works well, I don't think it's automatic that F/OSS software
(e.g., OpenOffice) is *just* better.

I don't get what you mean by "JIT language office system". Are you
referring to Microsoft Office or OpenOffice?

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Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> I'd imagine because it's FOSS.
> 
> A better question would be:
> 
> How can an a JIT language office system run on less hardware than a
> natively compiled one?  On a Celeron 533 system, I find OO.o to be a few
> orders of magnitude slower than Office 2K.
> 
> On a Core 2 3.0Ghz machine, I feel that it's much slower on Win32 in
> comparison to Office 2003 in terms of loading times, but the machine is
> fast enough as to not be able to tell a difference during usage.
> 
> I don't use either very heavily, though.
> 
> 
> On 5/16/07, *Dustin Puryear* <dustin at puryear-it.com
> <mailto:dustin at puryear-it.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Why do you feel that OpenOffice is better than Microsoft Office?
> 
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>     willhill wrote:
>     > Open Office is better than Office but both are quirky and I would
>     not use
>     > either for a big job.  For quick one or two page papers with
>     graphics, Open
>     > Office does the job on GNU/Linux with less hardware than a comparable
>     > Microsoft system.  I miss Word Perfect, which was easier and more
>     reliable
>     > than either.  My preference is for KWord, which is also quirky but
>     very light
>     > and easy to use.  The quirks I've run into are related to SVG and
>     KFormula
>     > and might have some teething issues with ODF.  For my thesis, I'm
>     using
>     > Kile/Latex and it's saving me all sorts of formating
>     headaches.  For business
>     > use, Open Office is more than adequate.
>     >
>     > The problem is that Microsoft has introduced yet another format
>     that no one
>     > else can read.  The new Office uses this format as it's default
>     and they have
>     > made it difficult to find the "save as" button or to see what kind of
>     > document you have saved.  People who don't have someone managing
>     these
>     > settings for them are going to have problems right away.  Users of
>     older
>     > versions of Office and Open Office are going to have problems if
>     the new
>     > Office takes off.
>     >
>     > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:48 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>     >> I'm curious what you guys think about OpenOffice vs. Office and
>     even vs.
>     >> Google Office.
>     >>
>     >> http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/16/who-uses-openoffice/
>     <http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/16/who-uses-openoffice/>
>     >
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