Comments on: Open Office’s market share in my circle of influence

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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:12:58 +0000

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Links 10/12/2009: CIsco and IBM GNU/Linux Servers | Boycott Novell — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:07:41 +0000

[...] Open Office’s market share in my circle of influence It is a difficult problem but I will not give up. I will continue to pass out copies of The OpenDisc to Windows users without ever knowing if people will throw the disks in the trash. There is a possibility that people think I am trying to give them a virus because I do not use professionally pressed media. That is under consideration although it would be time consuming and expensive. I am als considering switching to DVD-RW as well, that way the new owner of the OpenDisc may choose to keep it since it has a little more value. Ideally, I would like to find a bunch of other folks who will also help distribute the OpenDisc upon professionaly pressed media. [...]

By: o e

o e — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:23:01 +0000

I had to respond, Ironically the MSOffice2007 ribbon is exactly what drove me to OO and LINUX. After a forced upgrade from v2003 to v2007 I was floundering for a couple of weeks trying to write some pretty heavy documents, then one help desk guy suggested “go see the LINUX guys” and I did. What convinced me to write technical dissertations and papers for a PhD thesis in Open-Office ON CentOS (becuase the Windows Network Helpdesk was unwilling to install OO, and it was the closest available office program to MSOffice 2003. Yeah there’s LaTEX but our templates are rather dated and the learning curve is steep. At home have dumped windows for Ubuntu and Puppy which seem to have the same look and feel and bash command set…The wife got a laptop with Win7 and THAT is a messy learning curve…glad it isn’t mine. OpenOffice by the way is a GREAT piece of software, really stable, really capable without a lot of bloat…the only shortcoming is the documentation but that is being solved by the open source community fast.