Rod Engelsman wrote:
I would like to start a friendly philosophical disussion. Today our
friend Daniel Carrera posted a reply to an OP on the discuss list:
When is openoffice going to have a calendar function, similar to that in
Outlook. [?]
Daniel: "A calendar function does not belong in an office suite. Despite
what Microsoft might want you to believe, calendars, PIM, email etc are
communication tools, not document creation tools. If you need a
calendar, PIM, email, etc, I hope you will consider using Mozilla
Thunderbird."
I read the thread and didn't have any specific comments, but I had a few
overall thoughts.
What would be so bad if we were an overall office suite, payroll and
all. I agree that is unnecessary, but what is the harm, if it could work.
More realistically, why would it be /bad/ to include Mozilla with OOo?
It seems, that if we could get it integrated, that it would only be good.
I don't know that we should, I see Daniel's distinctions and I think
that they make sense. I don't know why we would want to have an
integrated product either. I understand grouping them on one CD, but I
would pose this question:
"What functionality do we currently not have that merging OOo and
Mozilla would provide us?"
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