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Happy 3rd Birthday To OpenOffice.org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-vigor-more-gusto dept.

Milo Fungus writes "OpenOffice.org is three years old today. The birthday page links to interviews and information about OpenOffice.org's push to schools, which is led by Ian Lynch of the Marketing Project. As a happy and satisfied user, I say 'Happy Birthday' with vigor and gusto." Gift idea: give a copy of OpenOffice.org to your boss tomorrow.

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  1. It's been three years... by Nephroth · · Score: 0, Insightful
    ...and on some systems it's finally finished loading!

    Go ahead fanboys, rate me down, but GNU is bloated, OpenOffice is bloated, and Windows is bloated. Don't try to deny it.

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    1. Re:It's been three years... by Nephroth · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Simple, while open source code, garners stability from being examined and evolved by many programmers. GNU code has a nasty habit of picking up large numbers of undocumented and otherwise unecessary "features" that are conducive to its relative slowness. Also GNU is a broken Unix standard, things designed to the GNU specification are not necessarily compliant in Unix (which Linux does seek to replicate) Take a look at popular GNU applications such as EMacs, EMacs is quite possibly the largest simple text editor ever concieved, it is practically its own operating system and that's hardly necessary. EMacs is like using an atomic bomb to get rid of a tree stump. Like it or not, though Linux has a good deal of stability, it's quite sluggish in many aspects and will continue to be until some standardized Linux is created (IE Linus stepping forward and saying "this is Linux, all Linux has these" and sets forth a set of applications and features, the option to add more in various distros would still be there, but they would all be based off the standard)

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  2. Re:A great service to OSS by Trolling4Dollars · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I use Wordpad. Fast, stable, and has every fucking feature 99% of the population needs.

    I love pointing this out... the troll has a point. Most people don't need anything beyond simple text entry, spell checking, bold, italic and underline. When you write a paper for school or work, it's not supposed to be interesting looking, it's supposed to have CONTENT. That's what a lot of people seem to NOT understand these days. With all the options for fonts, graphics and color text, the message is getting lost in the medium.

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  3. Re:Birthday Wish by Bishop923 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, a Jetta costs $15,000 vs the $80,000 of a Porsche 911, yet they can perform roughly the same function...