[odf-discuss] News on MS pluggin

[Ian Lynch]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 10:13 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-16-10 at 09:12 +0100, Ian Lynch wrote:
> > Kword? AbiWord? The thing about OOo is that a) the code is developed on
> > mono which makes it monolithic and that is not at all easy to change.
> 
> Mono?

Sorry slip of the brain, I meant to write Uno.

>  OOo predates Mono by 15 years. OOo is written in C++.
> 
> > b)
> > The take up of OOo compared to other FOSS WPs seems to indicate that
> > having something familiar to users is important at least to initiate
> > change.
> 
> That might be due to feature parity rather than UI. And the fact that
> OOo has been around much longer than open source word processors
> (StarOffice predates open source). Note: "due to feature parity" doesn't
> necessarily mean "people actually need these features often".

It could be a lot of reasons, but one of the reasons schools in
particular get interested in OOo is not the feature list, its not odf,
its not how long its been around, its that teachers, who don't give a
monkeys about code or anything technical, have something familiar in
front of them. Good filters for MS documents are also necessary. Other
sales bonuses are not having to worry about license issues such as keys,
FAST etc. In short, they want the least hassle possible. They have no
great interest in technology, to them a WP is something you use to write
with, end of story.

Ian
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