OpenOffice.org vs. ...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:00:14AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> I believe I've mentioned before, often when arguing that we shouldn't
> ship it, that OpenOffice.org is a steaming pile of crud that I never
> touch -- and only install because ubuntu-desktop says I should.
> 
> I tend to use gnumeric and abiword, they're just so much faster and
> easier to use, it's silly

gnumeric and abiword only attempt to provide a subset of the functionality
of OpenOffice.org, and their compatibility with Microsoft file formats still
seems to be less complete.  They just aren't comparable as replacements. 

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 - mdz