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Subject:   simple MS cloning will not work for OO
Date:   2005-04-05 13:35:25
From:   timharig
I am as much of an FLOSS optimist as anybody but OO is taking the wrong path. It will never make it as long as it keeps trying to be just like MS Office.


It has a great opertunity to create something great in and of itself but all they seem to be doing with it is to try to make it a look alike. If I want MS Office I might as well have the origional.


There are a number of changes that they could make in OO that would make it a super application in and of itself if it will ever stop trying to be a copycat and start doing its own innovation.


As for myself I only use it when I need to convert MS files to something that I can manipulate with other tools that are much more efficient and useful and then use OO to convert them back to an MS format that I can hand to others.