Re: [Fsfe-uk] OpenOffice

[Tom Yates]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Ramin Nakisa wrote:

> How complete/stable/MS-compatible is OpenOffice?  In the state that it
> was in a year ago I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending it to
> anyone.  I have it on a LinuxFormat DVD somewhere but haven't time or
> disk space to install it.

i'm merrily and regularly using OO638 to prepare presentations, do company 
accounts, and read stupid M$ enclosures that people send me (despite 
occasional use of rms's excellent and surprisingly polite "please don't" 
letters, available at 
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ).

no earlier version of OO was stable enough for me to be happy with it, 
although i tried nearly every one they released.  in 638 they fixed the 
printing weirdnesses, the import filters became stable enough for dealing 
with quotes in excel (and other vendor foolishness), and the thing 
generally "came of age" (imho).

i have no major complaints (other than speed and memory usage, but that's 
a general-purpose litany).  i haven't even considered upgrading it, 
although i see that 641c is now the prime-time candidate.

frankly, i'd be a bit stuffed without it.

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