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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> [Ouch. Trouble in Cash Cow meadow.]
>>
>> OpenOffice 3.0 Promises to Bash Office
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>> | Others maintain that the whole model of deskbound productivity
>> | applications is obsolete,
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>
> Those who say such things are as nutty as peanuts and disconnected from
> reality. They are spliffing and trying to go
> back to the days of terminal servers. I can't
> see anyone wanting to go back when they have 500Gb disks
> fitted on their PCs for $100 and can go with Open Office
> on their PCs and write their private letters the way
> letters are supposed to be written.
I typically just use text editors for everything (Kate is very powerful). If I
need something with rich formatting, such as a presentation or a latter, then
it's LaTeX. It has front ends and it's probably easier than WYSIWYG. It
depends on how you are trained as a child.
I haven't much affinity for office suites. They assume that bigger is better.
SUV mindset.
>> foreseeing a future in which businesses and
>> | individuals instead use lightweight online applications such as Google's
>> | Docs . It is likely, however, that all models will flourish in their own
>> | way-- desktop behemoths such as Office, alternatives such as OpenOffice,
>> | and online apps -- being embraced by users for different purposes.
>> `----
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>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/143711
> openoffice_30_promises_to_bash_office.html
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