Quoting Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, Open Office provides more than 10 percent of the functionality > of MS Office and aims to provide all of it eventually. In fact this myth > is wrong because while most people only use 20% of the features, each one > uses a different 20%. And take 9 or 10 people and you'll get close to the > full 100.
While it is true that "it's not the same 20%", it's hardly true to say that the sets of features are mutually exclusive or even nearly so. 100% of the people use core functionality (entering text, margins, tabs, alignment, character styles, fonts, sizes, bullets, numbering, printing, spelling check, etc.). It makes for a big part of their 20%, and the differences between people are over the marginal features. I have always dreamed of a word processor which, like the linux kernel, has a core and loadable modules. Basically, if a document requires a certain feature, it will be installed and added on the fly. If it's already installed, it will be quickly loaded to memory. If you want a ceratain capability, you'll manually install the required module. Maybe one day I'll write a word processor like that myself... When it exists, you'd realize that most people download only 3-4 modules over the core functionality. That's my point. Herouth ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
