Microsoft feeling the heat from OpenOffice

[patio]

  Open Office will never be like MS Office , it is full of bugs and strange behaviors , even writing a document and using functions like "copy /paste" or "undo" is paint-full.

 Only the fact that is free is their argument. Any way WordPad is a great opponent for Word version from Open Office ).

 
Total BS...
It's obvious you have not spent much time running OO...


 

[patio]

And your no longer qualified to comment on this discussion...

[Geek-9pm]

May I inject a bit of history here?
Sun and Microsoft are like Cats and Dogs.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, a Washington corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 99-15046.

Argued and Submitted June 16, 1999. -- August 23, 1999

...
Overview

This case illustrates how fast technology can outdistance the capacity of contract drafters to provide for the ramifications of a computer software licensing arrangement.   The license in question runs from plaintiff-appellee Sun Microsystems to defendant-appellant Microsoft.   It involves Java, a computer programming language Sun developed to enable the writing of programs that work on any computer operating system.   The license agreement was negotiated on a rushed basis in 1996, and by 1997 both Microsoft and Sun had developed what they believed to be significant improvements to Java.

Sun filed this suit for copyright infringement, claiming that Microsoft had exceeded the scope of its license by creating an enhanced version of Java that was fully operable only on Microsoft's operating system, and further, by not adapting its implementation of Java to be compatible with Sun's addition to Java of a component known as the “Java Native Interface” (“JNI”). ...

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1260682.html

The point I wish to make is this:
If Open Office was more like Ms Office...
- there would be another lawsuit.     

[Helpmeh]

Green and yellow and purple and blue... I can sing a rainbow... la la la...

Isn't is pink and green, not purple and blue...

Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue...I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow...

[Salmon Trout]

Isn't is pink and green, not purple and blue...

Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue...I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow...

Memory plays tricks especially when you get to my age.

[Helpmeh]

You're not that old Salmon

[umbra]

 I wanted to write "painful" but i wrote "paintfull" and so that was  underlined with red line, so spelling errors , and then i picked from suggestion list that "paint-full" .
 
 Any way i am happy to see that i did some people to smile .

 Yes indeed i did not used so much time OO and i don't regret that.

  Now i stop posting in this topic .