On Sunday, December 26, 2004, at 11:01 AM, David Lesher wrote:
What I don't grasp is Apple's seeming indifference to the clear
alterative: Open Office.
I use OO on other platforms, and where I must use a Word-ish product;
it's the clear choice. [I prefer WordPerfect, and use it more, but > that
On Dec 26, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Andrew F. wrote:
Perhaps because OpenOffice is not the "Clear Alternative" as you state
it
is.
and perhaps part of the reason is that it would hurt Office:Mac, which
would hurt Mac users if Microsoft decided to drop it.
I prefer WordPerfect, and probably always will,
Perhaps because OpenOffice is not the "Clear Alternative" as you state it
is. I tried it, and like any other "Word Alternative" it requires
converstion to and from the .doc format, which introduces all sorts of
formatting problems in both directions. Even if it was slick, polished and
OS X native
What I don't grasp is Apple's seeming indifference to the clear
alterative: Open Office.
I use OO on other platforms, and where I must use a Word-ish product;
it's the clear choice. [I prefer WordPerfect, and use it more, but that
is a side issue..]
The major trouble with OO on OSX is it does n
