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OpenOffice.org Is 4 Today
craigaa writes "OpenOffice.org turns four years old today.
A press release on the announce list giving an overview of the project has been issued with a link to the birthday page. What have your experiences been with OpenOffice.org over the past four years? Has the project and software met your expectations? What are you expecting in the years to come?"
An interview at NewsForge (also part of OSTG) poses the same kind of questions (and others) to Louis Suarez-Potts, the project's Community Manager. Suarez-Potts notes some specific ways to help the OO.org effort (especially if you are a Cocoa expert to help with the move to Aqua), and talks about the recent Sun-Microsoft agreement.
OO can out live MS, they're ver powerful and nice... I just wish that it would be more stable and have lots of features that MS Offcie has right now. It's getting there.... Nobody is perfect, I am nobody.
May
And if OpenOffice started getting reasonable Word and Excel filters, it might actually become useful.
Now now, very few four year olds can read. Wait until it's 7, then if it still can't read we can talk about remedial education.
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What would it take?
Wasn't it Linus who said that the open source model works better for OSs than for WPs?
Yes, because, since Microsoft Office is a closed source project it is much more difficult to steal source code from it than from, say, SCO Unix.
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
Travesty! Using a gaming machine for actual work. You should be ashamed of yourself for allowing that!
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
.... The spreadsheet native format takes an age to save. Writer is way too slow on my P266 laptop. Menus are unintuitive, user interface design is lacklustre. Presenter is a pain. They've even managed to clone Clippy, with an annoying lightbulb thing that gives you pointless advice. (Oh, and the help system for that advice takes an age to load.)
BUT it allows me to use Linux on the desktop, and for that I am truly grateful.
If that makes you happy, I'd hate to see what you would do if you considered yourself a masochist.
"I opened it with "Spreadsheet" (offtopic aside - part of me wishes the OO.o guys had more clever names for their components"
What the... everybody on Slashdot is always whining that open source apps use weird and undescriptive names, and now people whine that OpenOffice uses a highly descriptive name?!?! This just proofs that nobody should ever listen to Slashdot criticism, ever.