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Native KOffice for Mac OS X
bsharitt writes "A preliminary version of KOffice has been built natively on Mac OS X. It looks like a lot of the hard part is over, and now a lot of cleaning up and bug fixes stand between Mac OS X and a free full featured office suite." There's also a story on the dot.
Why Bother? No seriously, I mean OpenOffice is already ported to MAC OS X, and I think this just a waste of developer time, I mean yes there should be choice and all that, but not to the point that there are several redundant programs, of which none of them work very well. (Not specific to Koffice btw)
Given the price of a Mac, is *free* that big of a deal? Open source I understand, but it doesn't seem that anyone who can afford a Mac can't afford an office suite.
I managed to get some nice pretty Aqua screenshots of KDE and KOffice on Mac OS X. http://212.229.115.84/tripod/images/kofficemac/.
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3 fucking dupes on the front page today, guess that "give a shit about my job" resolution didn't last long.
When I judge on a pruely objective basis, regarding the abilities of various office products (not I am looking at the product only) then MS Office wins every time, every application.
Thanks for the wonderful idea.
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Is that you?
It may be imperfect,
/. Ever. Seriously. OO Writer is a complete piece of garbage. Buggy, quirky, image formatting is impossible, and even simple imports from Word that have even the SMALLEST formatting beyond text documents are usually completely trashed. Even starting from native documents it's difficult AT BEST to use. Not to mention its graph-less cousin, Calc. Hah.
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Understatement of the year.
but it's a far cry better than MSOffice in many ways and defecient in only unimportant features.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! Funniest thing I have ever read on
OO is garbage. It has been since the SO days when it was one single piece of garbage, now it's a bunch of slightly faster (though still considerably slower than Office) pieces of shit. No different in MDK, RH, or SuSE either. Slow. Crappy. Very consistent across platforms.
It definately comes out ahead in the cost-benefit calculation.
Finally, something you said that makes sense. Divide by zero results in.... ?
Of course, you must not make any money. My time is worth something, so OO loses. Big time. Thanks for an enormous laugh.
OO better than MS Office in any way other than price for people who don't make any money. Only on
How is it a company with 3% market share can get 80% of the fucking press? I'm so fucking sick of hearing about Apple. Fuck Apple. Fuck Apple hard. I hope they go out of business in 2004.
MS Office is clearly superior. It does well what the pretenders (OO/KO) try to do, and does a whole lot more. Would you differ from this opinion?
But then, their "port" of KHTML/Konqueror kind of dropped the "O" from "OSS", and a lot of people would argue that that wasn't the proper way to do it. They were acting in their own self-interest, of course, and they helped make the KHTML engine better than it had been, but the interface they built around the engine is entirely non-open. Lessons can be drawn by reverse engineering their work (DMCA aside), but the work they put into Safari cannot be reused by others.
So, a proprietary skin on an open core. Kind of like OSX itself for that matter. And just as Safari is a lesson to FOSS browser developers, OSX is one to system developers; contrariwise, just as, three or four years on, OSX hasn't yet motivated people to finally finish perfecting the standard *nix/X11 desktop, it could be a while before Safari's lessons make any impact...
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