Why is OpenOffice slow?

[Jad madi]

I've windows XP and ubuntu dapper installed on the same laptop and
unfortunately open office is much faster on windows than on linux. 

What we could do is either make open office run faster on linux or make
some patch for open office windows version to make it run slower on
windows so we can stop windows users from teasing us :D




On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 18:07 +0530, Arjun Shankar wrote:
> Okey, I didn't really bother about this till I saw OpenOffice running
> on Windows machines at the place where I train. OpenOffice works
> REALLY slow on my notebook (running only Ubuntu, so I can't really
> compare, how it is on other operating systems myself), but it's
> reasonably fast on those windows machines, which arent really all that
> 'better' than my litle piece of computing power.
> 
> So why is it that something thats open source is faster on a non-free
> platform, than one thats free?
> 
> I know this isn't exactly related to ubuntu; still...
> 
> Arjun Shankar
>