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KOffice Developers Reply to Yates

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-not-dead-yet dept.

danimo writes "In response to his letter to the Massachusetts administration, the KOffice team has written an open letter to Microsoft manager Alan Yates. It clarifies some false claims that Yates made, such as KOffice, StarOffice and OpenOffice.org being one codebase and that OpenDocument was thus never a real standard. Massachusetts has meanwhile adopted OpenDocument."

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  1. Open FUD by gwait · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft spreads Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, what a shocker!

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  2. Why even bother with word processors? by CyricZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why even bother with word processors these days when LaTeX is more than capable of the vast majority of document typesetting needs? It does take a bit longer to learn that Word, but everyone I know who has learned it has become far more efficient and can produce documents that are far more professional.

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    1. Re:Why even bother with word processors? by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny
      LaTeX is more than capable of the vast majority of document typesetting needs

      That's an understatement — TeX is Turing-complete.

    2. Re:Why even bother with word processors? by AceJohnny · · Score: 2, Funny

      Remember that a majority of office workers (was it 67%?) that use office suites get mixed up between kilobytes and megabytes. They find it confusing...

      And you would ask them to use LaTeX?

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  3. Allow me to say ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is ridiculous. They are trying to establish a monopoly on the word processor market, even enforcing a standard upon people so they are restricted to their products. Heed my words, and use Microsoft Word instead.

    Alan Yates.

  4. invitation to mailing lists. by Janek+Kozicki · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Mr Yates,
    [...]
    You can also write to the KOffice mailing list and ask your questions there.

     I can't wait to see his flames on the mailing list!

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  5. eh ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yates ????? Shouldn't that be Gates ? :)))

  6. When you go to PR training... by Osrin · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... one of the first things that they teach you is that if somebody calls you an idiot, then duck the response. Don't stand up and loudly proclaim that you're not an idiot, you'll make a headline out of it.

    KOffice, or anybody else for that matter would probably have better served their cause by not responding at all to this.

  7. Re:Word processing != Typesetting by PeterBrett · · Score: 2, Funny
    Um, except gedit/wordpad don't offer tables, formulas, styles, graphics, or fields pulled from a database. Most geeks on /. work in technical environments where the bulk of work is either code or networks or research.

    Well, the solution's obvious: they should be using Emacs! It supports all of the above features, runs on many platforms, and it's fast and has a small memory footprint too!

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  8. Re:Hi. Here. Us, too... :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apparently you live in an entirely different U.S. than I do, since making excuses is basically the norm at every level of business. That and selling deficiencies are benefits.

  9. Re:Hi. Here. Us, too... :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why do you hate America?