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

[David Duffy]

Greg Black wrote:

>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.
>  
>

We use OO fairly frequently. Spreadsheets are easy enough to produce 
with it.
I can produce nice bulleted instruction pages for products, do quotes 
that look
quite nice, etc. I've never used MS Office as I don't want to pay that much.

Greg, what do you use? I'm interested in what others use for the type of 
work
that OO and MS Office are designed for. I mean I use Ultra Edit for most of
my programming and html/php writing needs as it suits the job. I use OO for
all of the fancier text and spreadsheet type jobs. Horses for courses.
David...

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