Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Dec 2005 20:16 UTC
"Of all the myths that have grown up around open source software, perhaps the most pervasive is Eric Raymond's aphorism that 'Many eyes make bugs shallow', suggesting that if lots of people can view a program's source code, they will find and fix its errors more quickly than commercial products whose code is jealously guarded. The only problem with this is that it's not true - certainly not in one of the flagship projects of open source, OpenOffice."
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2005-11-02
Despite all the (thoroughly misleading) reviews that OO reads MS Office format documents "almost flawlessly" this is just blatantly untrue
This is not my experience. I use OOo at home and have MS Office at work. I prepare documents at home and take them to work and vice-versa. I work on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Fair enough I don't use macros, work with only moderate sized spreadsheets, and believe on principle that presentations should look like the ones I prepared for 35mm slide shows a dozen years ago. Furthermore I don't use the database functionality of either suite.
However I have found only minor formatting problems when transferring files between the two suites. I have also found that our spreadsheet templates developed exclusively on Excel (not by me) have worked flawlessly in Calc, including the the graphical plots (BTW they have also worked similarily in Gnumeric).
Finally my presentations have been well received, but maybe thats because they concentrate on scientific content rather than special effects and silly irrelevant animations.