Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice. Staroffice used to be free as in you can freely download and install in as many computers as you like but Sun Microsystems has recently decided to charge for Staroffice. However, please do not fret as Openoffice.org will always be free and we are going to show you in this article how and why Openoffice.org instead of MS Office and StarOffice is for you.
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What are people thinking?! This thing *should* look as much like MS Office as possible. If MS Office is "good enough" for most people, and it is, then why would they migrate? The reasons for migration are cost and file format freedom. If the interface has a learning curve they'll be less prone to migrate.
If you want something new use Abiword, KDE Office, etc., etc. There's plenty of other also-ran's. The world wants to stick with what they know.