[ILUG] M$Orifice for Linux

[Noel Carroll]

I heard somewhere the other day that M$ have 34 developers working on
porting Orifice to Linux.   I think this story has been going around for a
while as I'm certain I heard something like that on /. over a year ago.  My
point is anyway that I couldn't see this going very far for M$.   I use Star
Office at home on an off and on basis.   I think its a good product with
maybe a few rough edges that will be sorted in the next release no doubt but
the main point is that it does what it has to do without fuss.   Office is a
bloated piece of crap that, when it doesn't crash outright, screws up your
document the moment you try to do something exotic.   After the Lookout
debacle last week I think I'm going to start using the StarOffice mailer
just to try it out under Windows.   I'd imagine most people in the Linux
community think along the lines I do so, with that in mind, I'd be skeptical
that everybody is suddenly going to rush out to their local shop and pay
£100 or whatever to Redmond when we already have cheaper products to order
or free over the web.   What do people think?

Noel

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