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1. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

   (Aug 19, 2005 - 11:11 PM)

   "it wasn't an issue -- the police forces did not need the tight integration they need now in a post 9/11-world."
   
   Ridiculous! Are you telling me MS Office and Star Office are so far apart it impacts police response to terrorism? What, they can't pick up a freakin' radio instead of reading a Word document about some Al Qaeda suspect? Not to mention that if the cops HAD the "tight integration" BEFORE 9/11, they wouldn't be so uptight now about everything that they have to shoot people for no competent reason.
   
   Garbage! Tight integration, my butt! The only tightness is in the cops's butts when it comes to working with anything that seems remotely "free".
   
   This is an irrelevant issue anyway. A minor contract with a public entity is lost, and the article is a FUD piece to even mention it in connection with the overall prospects of Star Office and OpenOffice. Both Microsoft and OSS lose contracts every day. So what else is new?
   
   It does NOT raise issues about compatibility in the absence of any specific compatibility problems being cited. For all we know, the IT people are idiots who can't figure out how to overcome minor issues of document rendering.
   
   There have been plenty of people on both sides saying that OpenOffice renders Office documents fine and others saying the opposite. It depends on your documents, your document policies, and who you are exchanging documents with.
   
   Generalities about the issue are not useful. Neither is extrapolating specific issues to the overall viability of the products in the absence of statistics indicating the level of acceptance. Attempts to do are rightly labeled FUD.