[H-GEN] Software Freedom Day (new thread)

[Michael Anthon]

On 9/7/05, Robert Brockway <rbrockway at opentrend.net> wrote:
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> > With the exception of Chris at SCM, it was a totally new
> > concept. Most were familiar with Microsoft Word and I
> > presume its price.  You could sense their amazement when I
> > explained there were free work-a-likes available that have
> > been written by volunteers.
> 
> The next step is disbelief.  "It sounds too good to be true".

"Yes, OK, you got me, it's not true. They don't work just like the MS
programs, they work a lot better"

Not really sure if this is true to be honest...  I don't use any of
them regularly enough to have formed an opinion.  I use MS stuff at
work and OO at home but the majority of my usage at work is Access
(usage of MS stuff that is) and I hardly use OO at all at home, just
the occasional spreadsheet to figure some stuff out.

That said, I've not had problems with OO.  I have had many problems
with Word doing things that it thinks I want to do, not what I really
wanted it to do.

Cheers,
Michael