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OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview

Posted by Zonk on from the second-verse-different-than-the-first dept.

Reader lord_rob the only on wrote in to mention a preview of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 running on tectonic. From the article: "It is not too bold to say that OpenOffice.org 2.0 will usher in a new era of functionality, reliability, compatibility and ease of use. The extensive changes and enhancements which are to be included in the upcoming release are all the evidence needed to justify this assertion." As we mentioned earlier this week, the beta candidate is currently available.

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  1. Re:I Took it For a Spin by Delta2.0 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm using the beta and base is amazing. It's designed so much better than access. Now I laugh at those using MS office who have had to download security patches. I'm not sure how M$ fucked up that bad that there was security exploits in their OFFICE SUITE.

  2. Re:Yeah - So Who's Lovin' It? by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Welcome to reality: Microsoft shafts their users whenever they can, and the users shaft Microsoft back whenever they can too in turn. That's the name of the game.

    The grandparent is a fucking idiot.
    If someone said FBI's job is to catch the terrorists, the terrorists' job is to nuke New York, would he feel the terrorists are just doing their job or that they're bad guys?

    That way of thinking has been denounced in movies ages ago:
    "Their job is to catch us, our job is not to get caught"
    Curtis, in "Truth or Consequences, NM"
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120383/

  3. Re:Yeah - So Who's Lovin' It? by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >The fact that it is released under the LGPL means that there is nobody preventing you from integrating it with, say, Gnumeric, AbiWord, KOfffice, or even MS Office.

    1) Coding it myself will never get it done
    2) A commercial version of such integrating package would make me locked in again
    3) OSS version of such package does not exist (yet).

    Hence, StarBasic does demonstrate "lock-in".

  4. Re:Yeah - So Who's Lovin' It? by Curtman · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If someone said FBI's job is to catch the terrorists, the terrorists' job is to nuke New York, would he feel the terrorists are just doing their job or that they're bad guys?

    If the US kills 100,000+ people in the name of liberation, are they just doing their job? Some say yes, I say they're all terrorists. Depends who you ask I guess.