Linked by Rahul on Sat 11th Oct 2008 01:39 UTC
Michael Meeks who leads the OpenOffice.org development team within Novell has taken a
detailed look at contributions associated by metrics to OpenOffice.org and makes the case that Sun's tight control over the codebase and the lack of enough volunteer contributors leaves the development slowly stagnating over a period of time. Michael Meeks has recently started strongly advocating the position that Sun needs to setup a more independent OpenOffice.org foundation or otherwise allow more relaxed policies for commit access and be less rigid about assignment of copyright to itself for the development community of Openoffice.org to thrive beyond Sun developers.
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2005-10-18
I suggest that you try Softmaker Office 2008. It's proprietary, but sub-$100 and has overall better MS compatibility than OOo. Currently it doesn't have a macro recorder though (it does have a VBA equivalent called BasicMaker).
On Softmaker's website, you'll find a 30-day trial version of the software that'll save to MS formats for 7 days.