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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Not free, but cheap and very compatible
by Temcat on Sat 11th Oct 2008 10:07
in reply to "Well said..."
Member since: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.
Member since:2008-06-18
Yea but I still run into far too many people that think they need MS Word to open and use a word document. Then if they actually do try OO they don't give it a fair shake due to the familiarity of MSFT Office. Just like Windows they don't understand that it's not that MSFT Office is easier it's just familiar.
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2005-07-06
Also, it's pretty important for Ooo to succeed. Many, many individuals I know who cannot afford a $500 Office Suite (I live in the Caribbean) turn to Ooo to help them create their documents etc.
Without Ooo, where would they go for help? If there's another Open Office Suite with fairly complete programs (equivalents of Word, Excel & PowerPoint), I'm all ears.
Until a competitor or replacement is found (which can run on Windows, I should add), we must make all efforts to save Ooo and make it a better program with every new release.