[mdlug] Linux push an economic phenomenon?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:43 -0500, Dan Pritts wrote: 
> sluggish and bloated seems to apply to openoffice too, actually. 

Yea, it is popular to say that.  But it is crap.  I use Open Office
extensively to manage large [~200 page] documents. I push very large
amounts of data around with Open Calc and I maintain multi-part
documents over the course of years with Open Writer - documents with
hundreds of cross-reference entries..  It works very well and
performance is well within the acceptable range.   It is certainly not
sluggish or "bloated" [although "bloated" is such a stupid meaningless
word I'd prefer to discard it as a category all together].

> >> Oh yeah, one other thing I didn't mention.  Living in the real world, as
> >> opposed to living in the world we'd all prefer, I have to deal with M$
> >> attachments, and OpenOffice just doesn't cut it when it comes to sending
> >> documents back and forth and trying to maintain formatting.  This does
> >> not please me, and it's not Linux's fault, but it's another reason not to
> >> use linux on the desktop.