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____/ Homer on Friday 06 June 2008 13:23 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
>
>> He could have mentioned openoffice in this list.
>
> Rob Pegoraro seems to have his head stuck up proprietary software,
> drooling for the next "killer app" releases, so I'm not in the least
> bit surprised that his Free Software amnesia kicked in.
>
> He's a fairly typical old-school tech. journo, the kind who hangs on
> to every buzzword; gets excited about "widgets"; applauds everything
> Messiah Jobs says (with tears of joy in his eyes), and tries desperately
> to pretend Free Software doesn't exist.
>
> This, presumably, is because it fails to meet the intrusive; hand
> -holding criteria of Clippy, the likes of which plasters the screen
> full of colourful "Wizards" that decide everything for you (wrongly,
> of course), whilst giving users that warm and fuzzy reassurance that
> spending all that money was justified, because 'only "professional"
> software uses Wizards'.
>
> So what if that insecure; bloated pile of unstable Slopware crashes
> every five minutes. Hey, there's Wizards for that too.
>
> Meanwhile OpenOffice.org's popularity continues to grow at the rate of
> one Million downloads per *week* [1], and is estimated to have up to a
> 24% market penetration [2]. How will Pegoraro manage to ignore OOo when
> it's at 90%, I wonder?
>
> [1]<http://blogs.sun.com/musings/entry/openoffice_org_1_million_downloads>
>
[2]<http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=475&blogid=14>
Actually, Rob Pegoraro is quite pro-Linux at times. Don't be judgmental based
on a single article. In this case, however, he forgot to point out what other
bloggers did (and posted about after testing): Microsoft Office for Mac does
not play nice with the same thing for Windows. It's a hoax. OOXML is a mess.
By the way, OOo's download pace jumped up to 1,200,000+ a week _within a few
months_, so the reference about it a bit out of date. ;-) This might indicate
that people really /do/ hate the ribbon, explore ODF, need to save money,
realise that OOo 2.4 with OpenGL acceleration is pretty nifty and with 3.0
coming later this year it moves faster than MSO ever had.
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