[ale] Star vs Open Office

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

ALErs -

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:19:44 -0400
> "H. Bieber" <habieb at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> > What is the advantage of running Star Office over Open Office? Don't
> > worry about the fact that Star Office costs $$. I am just looking for
> > software based reasons.

> The difference is that SO contains licensed code they can't distribute
> free.  As others have mentioned, this allows it to do things like read
> WP documents better than OO.

Ancedotal evidence (one try each) suggests HTML docs have a much better 
chance of survival when handled with SO than with OO. OO was a killer on 
the sample I tried! I don't plan to go _there_ again.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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