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

[Greg Black]

On 2005-09-07, Michael Anthon wrote:

> 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.

I must say that I am very uncomfortable whenever I see OO
evangelism.  Yes, it's useful for those situations when somebody
clueless sends you a Word document.  But as for being useful in
its own right, no way.

It's big and bloated and buggy as hell; it's full of stupid
assumptions about what you want which never have any connection
with what I want; it's becoming more and more dependent on Java
for critical functionality; and, unless you already have been
brainwashed into thinking the Word way is good, its entire way
of doing things just sucks.

No matter how much I needed an application to do the stuff that
Word and OO Writer do, I would never use either one of them (or
anything that looked like them) to create documents of my own.

Now, I know that not everybody will agree with me -- and maybe
there are people who actually /like/ these utilities -- but the
fact is that there are lots of people who just shudder at the
thought of having to use something that works the Microsoft way
or something that is so big and buggy that it'll never be truly
reliable -- especially if they care about their documents.

Cheers, Greg