Comments on: Ten Years of OpenOffice.org

By: lavezarez

lavezarez — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:29:56 +0000

a very enlightening read on openoffice – http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2007-10-02.html

By: lavezarez

lavezarez — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:15:08 +0000

I just found out recently why my openoffice calc in Ubuntu had 1 million+ rows, while my oo calc in Windows had only 65,000+ rows – when both were in version 3.20.

Ubuntu’s OO repositories apparently point to a branch of OO maintained by a different set of people (www.go-oo.org) while the original OO remains in http://www.openoffice.org/

Nice thing about the go-oo version, aside from being able to read more than 65k of rows, is that it can run VBA macros even in Ubuntu! It rocks!

By: JMR

JMR — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:39:47 +0000

# Blade Says:
March 21st, 2010 at 7:31 pm

Open Office is terrible.. like every other open anything .. sucktastic.

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I bet this dude (or lady) has barely ever used OpenOffice or Linux. I bet he/she has been chained to Microsoft stuff for so long than the existence of a good suitable alternative is a “pipe dream” to them. Sad, sad…such close-mindedness and ignorance

By: Kron

Kron — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:26 +0000

Blade, don’t be angry at an app that you aren’t ready for, learn to use computers first then start judging the applications.

Kron

By: Blade

Blade — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:31:21 +0000

Open Office is terrible.. like every other open anything .. sucktastic.

By: GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 242 (03/21/2010)

GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 242 (03/21/2010) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:36:39 +0000

[...] Ten Years of OpenOffice.org [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:45:20 +0000

GeorgeP
A. How many open source word processors do you use? Why not use Openoffice for everything? Of course .doc’s work in (most) msoffice versions, it’s the same program! With that said, .docx doesn’t work in older versions….

B. How is SSuite better? Besides the crappy looking website, when I looked at screenshots, all the icons on the toolbar looked like they were stolen from word 97! Also it only runs on MS windows, so whats the point of it not using java and.net?

By: GeorgeP

GeorgeP — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:03:24 +0000

OpenOffice and other free open source software are still not compatible when using their own document formats like ODF.

When creating a document in ODF and opening it in another open source office suite or word processor, all the formatting have been corrupted. Try that with MS office and you will see why most people still like to use it.

Have you ever considered SSuite Office as a free alternative to MS Office?

Their software also doesn’t need to run on Java or .NET, like MS Office and so many open source office suites.

http://www.ssuitesoft.com

By: Links 19/3/2010: Google’s TV Project, OpenOffice.org Turning 10, OSBC | Boycott Novell

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:14:53 +0000

[...] Ten Years of OpenOffice.org This year (2010) marks the 10th anniversary of a lot of things: Tuvalu’s entry into the United Nations, Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the debut of Windows ME, for example. But much more importantly, 2010 marks OpenOffice.org’s tenth year of existence. To celebrate, here’s a look–literally, because there are a lot of screenshots–at how OOo has evolved throughout the decade. [...]

By: tmx

tmx — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:39:38 +0000

I really don’t care for open source having to be forced to be compatible with Microsoft. Microsoft don’t want it to be compatibled and rather lock-in its users. The irony is that now MS have to be the other way around to compete with open source: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/101547/microsoft-says-its-contentious-relationship-open-source-changing.

But you can always use Go-oo.org, which is the Novell version of OOo. It should be more compatible.

Oh and screw docx.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:03 +0000

“Its compatibility with Microsoft Office has also become nearly flawless, at least in Writer”.

For certain values of “nearly” Come on Christopher, compatibility with Microsoft Word is horrible. I don’t remember the last time (if ever) a .doc or .docx was flawlessly converted and opened by OOo Writer.

By: ricegf

ricegf — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:56:06 +0000

“…if I compare OOo’s progress to MSO’s…”

OK, whine shields up.

MSO is making great progress, except that it is mostly in the wrong direction IMHO. I’ve used 2007 at work for over a year now, and *still* frequently turn to Google in search of the new location of a long-standing feature. (Repeat after me: You don’t insert a new slide in PowerPoint from the Insert tab…)

I nearly went blind last week trying to cross-hatch an area, only to discover on MSDN that the cross-hatching feature was *removed* in 2007.

And I really, really miss the ability to align objects with a single click (via a custom 2003 toolbar), instead of the tiring multi-click affair required in 2007. Why, exactly, can’t I change the toolbars to work the way *I* do?

OK, end whine. Deep breath.

I suppose that I’m arguing that change-for-change’s-sake is a *bad* thing, and I *like* the methodical pace of innovation in OOo. OOo is like coming home – it’s not shiny, but boy oh boy is it *productive*.

Just my $0.02 worth.