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"OOO /Star/Koffice/whatever just aren't good enough to prevent the person proposing the change losing their job once the end users have trouble interoperating with Windows clients. If it's Office, just blame Microsoft and keep your job."

+1 billion, insightful. That's exactly the case. As great as OOO is, it _just_isn't_perfect_, and since it comes from a 3rd party, you're the one to blame. There is an old page that compares a particular document in MSO/Win, MSO/Mac, and OOO. OOO is great, and Office/Mac isn't perfect, but so many people write stuff in MSO that needs to be printed, anything less than perfect won't do.

In the case of OOO, the imperfection is your fault, and since your job is to make things work, you obviously aren't doing your job. With MSO, just blame MS, like the parent said. Also, with Office/Mac, you don't have to explain to the high-up lusers how to save in a compatible format--just write, save as .doc, and email it around the enterprise.

Easy: zero wasn't enough and pi was too much. Therefore, e it is.

Easy: zero wasn't enough and pi was too much. Therefore, e it is.

Easy: zero wasn't enough and pi was too much. Therefore, e it is.

Where I'm from, we just turn our cubes into pumpkins.

Dependency Hell is still alive and well. I've seen both apt (on redhat) and up2date fail due to dependancies. Think I'm joking? Think that's impossible? Think again. That screenshot is one of *many* failures on that particular system. I've only used apt a few times and it failed more than once, so to hell with it, I won't even bother. If I can't do it out-of-the-box, I don't do it.

In the last five years, Linux has gone from a very low percentage of easy successes to, let's be generous, 80%. (By easy I mean setup, next, next, agree, next, next, done, maybe reboot, works.) In that same time, Windows has gone from 90% to 99%.

Fun example: not to pick on anyone, but Freevo asked for it. Their page says "There are no external dependencies if you use the full binary release (~12 MB)! This means that you will not have to waste any time downloading other RPMs, libs etc to run Freevo." I tried it last week on a brand-new, fresh-off-the-CD RH 7.3 system. (because I had the install CDs handy; RH9 was at a friend's house.) Failed immediately due to dependencies: needed libpng or something. To be fair, it worked like a charm once I put RH9 on that box, but nothing nowhere says it requires thsi or that version of RH or kernel or anything.

So, is slashdot a non-compliant site? Look at this and let me know. Seriously, I'm not baiting or trolling-- is slashdot compliant or isn't it? Because Mozilla on Mac OS 9 looks pretty crappy on most slashdot pages. The bottom three boxes are just minor font issues (still annoying on long reads) but look at the top three boxes and tell me what you think.

here is a page I made showing how Windows/MSOffice, Windows/OO, Linux/OO, and Mac/MSOffice handle the same document--a document, as it happens, that comes straight from Microsoft.