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Linux Office Suites

Posted by michael on from the my-money-is-on-koffice dept.

Cowculator writes: "Sun Microsystems will release the beta version of StarOffice 6.0 in October, with the development version already available. This ZDNet article has some more details, including a link to the development version..." Other submitters sent in notes about Gobe Productive and Hancom Office 2.0, not to mention KOffice and the Gnome office applications. As far as I know all of these are lacking the single most important thing, a robust and complete set of import filters for Word, Wordperfect, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.

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  1. Attention readers by jchristopher · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    To the jerk with moderator points who has gone through this article and moderated down everyone who said anything bad about StarOffice, FUCK YOU.

    There is a post by a guy who said "it's slow on my K6 266mhz, but I'll try it again when the new version comes out" and you moderated him as a "-1, troll"?

    I pointed out that it was dumb of them to not use the standard Windows file Open/Save dialog boxes because it confuses users, and you hammered me as "-1, flamebait".

    You are missing an important guideline for moderating - not to let your feelings get in the way. What a joke. How would you feel if some Microsoft flunky got mod points and moderated up everything that said "Linux sucks!" - probably not good, yet what you have done is the same thing.

    If you want to see people's REAL experiences with StarOffice, you should read this article at a threshold of "0", otherwise you aren't getting the whole picture, which is that it's a good alternative, but also that it has a lot of problems. Thanks for reading.