Open Office vs Microsoft Office

[Spanky deMonkey]

All the Linux pundits think that OpenSource is the best thing since sliced
bread. Well, read the following and decide if working with OpenSource is
better than MS Office. For my money, I would rather have an industrial
strength product than a TOY. Even if the TOY is free.


http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=120

 

[carl feredeck]

I know a very good and prolific writer, who uses openoffice and Linux so he
can be sure that he wont be hit by a virus. he makes millions.

sometimes its not about the word processor, but what you have to say...

 

[Alias]

All the Linux pundits think that OpenSource is the best thing since sliced
bread. Well, read the following and decide if working with OpenSource is
better than MS Office. For my money, I would rather have an industrial
strength product than a TOY. Even if the TOY is free.


http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=120

Wine

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X,
OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running
Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a
completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting
of 100% non-Microsoft code. However Wine can optionally use native
Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development
toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program
loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based
Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.Wine does not
have a menu entry (since it is a commnad line application. However, you
can double click any windows executable and make it run in wine. Wine
creates menu entries for all installed windows applications in
Applications--> Wine

Alias

 

[Frank]

I know a very good and prolific writer, who uses openoffice and Linux so he
can be sure that he wont be hit by a virus. he makes millions.

sometimes its not about the word processor, but what you have to say...

OMG...are you on something or what?
All any friggin writer needs is notepad on any computer! Or a legal pad,
pen or pencil.
I too know (knew, he very recently died) one of the most commercially
successful writers of the 20th Century. Legal pad and pencil is all he
ever used.
So please, don't use a "writer" as a good example of the power of Oo.
It's as bad example.
It makes you look foolish and stupid.
Frank

 

[Frank]

Wine

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X,
OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running
Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a
completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting
of 100% non-Microsoft code. However Wine can optionally use native
Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development
toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program
loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based
Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.Wine does not
have a menu entry (since it is a commnad line application. However, you
can double click any windows executable and make it run in wine. Wine
creates menu entries for all installed windows applications in
Applications--> Wine

Alias

Oh please, give up looking like a fool. You're stating to make me feel
embarrassed for you.
Only an idiot would pay for first class excellent software and run it on
wine.
What is the point?
Ridiculous!
Frank

 

[Charlie Tame]

Frank wrote:

OMG...are you on something or what?
All any friggin writer needs is notepad on any computer! Or a legal pad,
pen or pencil.
I too know (knew, he very recently died) one of the most commercially
successful writers of the 20th Century. Legal pad and pencil is all he
ever used.

Why that's right, I don't need to buy MS Office after all, I already
have a pencil.

 

[JTJersey]

All the Linux pundits think that OpenSource is the best thing since
sliced bread. Well, read the following and decide if working with
OpenSource is better than MS Office. For my money, I would rather have
an industrial strength product than a TOY. Even if the TOY is free.


http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=120

OO.org is free and does whatever most people need to do. MS Office 2007
Standard is $399. If you have the money,then by all means go buy MS
Office. Why badmouth Open Source software? If you don't like it, don't
use it.

 

[Adam Albright]

Oh please, give up looking like a fool. You're stating to make me feel
embarrassed for you.

Frankie, you feel embarrassed when you act like as ass all day every
day?

That's funny!

 

[Frank]

Frank wrote:






Why that's right, I don't need to buy MS Office after all, I already
have a pencil.

Yep, some of us still remember and use them.
But I only use ones with an eraser.
And I still sharpen my own!
Frank

 

[Charlie Tame]

Yep, some of us still remember and use them.
But I only use ones with an eraser.
And I still sharpen my own!
Frank

Hardware hacking?

 

[Lang Murphy]

All the Linux pundits think that OpenSource is the best thing since sliced
bread. Well, read the following and decide if working with OpenSource is
better than MS Office. For my money, I would rather have an industrial
strength product than a TOY. Even if the TOY is free.


http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=120

Well... that article was posted like 20 months ago. Things might've changed
since then... dunno. That said... man, in that article, OpenOffice makes
Office look positively svelte, memory usage wise. Har! Unexpected, to be
sure.

Lang

 

[Frank]

Hardware hacking?

:-D
Frank

 

[noaim]

openoffice runs pretty well on my machine however I do wish I could afford
office 2007 but its just to much money for me so I'm kind of stuck with
using open office although I don't really have much to complain about.

 

[Airman Thunderbird]

The Home & Student version seems reasonable:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116135

 

[Alias]

Oh please, give up looking like a fool. You're stating to make me feel
embarrassed for you.
Only an idiot would pay for first class excellent software and run it on
wine.
What is the point?
Ridiculous!
Frank

There are many but you wouldn't understand.

Alias

 

[ray]

All the Linux pundits think that OpenSource is the best thing since sliced
bread. Well, read the following and decide if working with OpenSource is
better than MS Office. For my money, I would rather have an industrial
strength product than a TOY. Even if the TOY is free.


http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=120

Whatever floats your boat. The fact remains that OpenOffice.org will
perform perfectly for approximately 95% of the populace - and it won't
cost them a dime to find out. Probably 90% of the capability available in
ms office is totally unused by better than 90% of the users. To say that
OpenOffice is not 100% compatible with ms office is a fact. To say that it
is utterly unusable by the vast majority of the computing public is a lie.

 

[Guest]

There are many but you wouldn't understand.

Translation: "I can't think of one good reason so I'll insult you instead"

 

[Alias]

Translation: "I can't think of one good reason so I'll insult you instead"

One good reason: running something in Wine under Ubuntu means no chance
of getting a virus or malware. Good enough reason for you? Giving Frank
reasons is futile 'cause all he will come back with is bluster.

Alias

 

[Frank]

One good reason: running something in Wine under Ubuntu means no chance
of getting a virus or malware. Good enough reason for you? Giving Frank
reasons is futile 'cause all he will come back with is bluster.

Alias

Let's put an end to the myth (lie?) you keep spreading about Windows &
linux and malware/viruses ok?
1) both are susceptible to malware and viruses. I know your pointy head
will explode if you accept that fact, but how cares, we all can duck
when that happens, (if ever!). But that is an irrefutable fact.
Too bad!
Live with it.
2) We've never, ever had any of our computers infected with malware or
viruses. Never! So the stupid idea of running Adobe CS3 on wine on linux
to simply avoid malware or viruses is shockingly ignorant and based on a
bold faced lie.
Frank

post your lying bs lunatic response below cause nobody gives a sh*t.

 

[Lang Murphy]

openoffice runs pretty well on my machine however I do wish I could afford
office 2007 but its just to much money for me so I'm kind of stuck with
using open office although I don't really have much to complain about.

<snip>

I feel your pain! I've tried Open Office a couple of times... not in recent
memory, though. (No pun intended, when one considers the op's link to the
article.)

Like nix... I liked it, I thought it was a good product, and I prefer
Windows and Office. To each their own.

Lang