On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:10:51 -0500 Robert Derman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Adams wrote: > > >On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:35:59 -0800 > >Greg Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>I've been using Open Office for a couple of months now. I read with > >>horror the news item highlighted on the OO homepage about "coupling" > >>with Google. No thanks! If you put a Google toolbar in OpenOffice > >be>sure you give me a way to get rid of it. Google is a huge > >corporation>with some rather questionable practices (IMHO). Google > >just might be >the next Microsoft. > >> > >>-g. schmitz > >> > >> > >> > > > >Personally to me its like having an advertising banner slapped across > >the program. > > > >I read with interest the recent threads about NOT integrating a mail > >client in OO.o. I hope the same sanity is the driving force here. > > > >I would be happiest if it was an optional downloadable add-on wizard > >like the dictionaries. In other words opt-in not opt-out. > > > > > > > Robert Derman replies: Not having heard anything about any > modifications to the program to accomodate Google, I suspect that the > first big thing will be distribution and promotion of OOo by Google. > The result of that would be that the *average* computer user will > actually have heard of OOo, and being a free download, may actually > have it on their machine. With Google's rather substantial financial > assets available, a browser interface, full email and calendar > integration and some other goodies many of us have been wishing for in > print on this list may happen sooner rather than later. > I really don't think that there is much love lost between Google > and > Microsoft, and perhaps Google sees in OOo a very heavy club to hit M$ > with. With OOo supporting OpenDocument and M$ Office not, > Massachusets is probably just the first of many states to standardize > on OOo. OOo 2.0 is in most respects, a far superior program to OOo > 1.x and OOo 1.x was already a strong competitor to M$ Office. I have > M$ Word on my computer, but I almost never use it because for most of > my purposes Writer is a FAR better word processor! Most of the things > that people complain about on this list, are features that OOo already > has, they just havn't been able to find them yet, or they are included > in the new OOo 2.0. If we have the good sense to include the new > users manual as a PDF on the download, most of that will be solved. > Most of the other things sound more like minor code tweeks than major > rewrites. If Google were to make it possible for a few more > programmers to be able to work on OOo full time, I think that most of > these problems could be addressed in short order. > If governments and large corporations analize all the implications > > of OpenDocument support, M$ Office will become the next Wordstar or > Wordperfect! Let me just say that I suspect that Google may be the > best thing that ever happened to OOo, and then I will get down from my > soapbox. > Sorry Robert, i am bowing out of this thread permanantly, not because it doesn't interest me but because of the flame-baiting. I actually regret my post as it helped to incite this fervour. I await the format in which any integration MAY happen with interest and some reserves. Will keep my eyes peeled for any news. Cheers -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
