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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Mr. Parish,
How can you seriously compare the installation of MS Office to anything to do with linux. OpenOffice.org's installation under windows is without fault, it is simple and transparent, simpler even than MS Office. The 'problems' that the 'average joe' will experience in linux are inherent in almost all installations in linux that aren't part of the original distribution.
Anyway the 'average joe' installing anything on linux is a minute subset of 'average joe' or 'joe bloggs' if you like.
"joe average will look at the ease of installation of MSOffice and the installation lacks of OpenOffice.org* and will say, "So what? Why change?"
I would imagine that anyone comparing the ease of installation of MS Office to the installation of OpenOffice.org on Linux is in fact an imbecile and thinion is inconsequential.