Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: another funny one from ZdNet

On 02/20/2013 04:19 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 02:52 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 06:18:44PM +0600, Urmas wrote:
> > > > The article is very pro-LibreOffice but so many of the comments
> > > > have a hilarious amount of FUD in them.  One wonders if they have
> > > > ever even tried either MSO or LO.
> > > Most people who "own" StarOffice or many of its forks don't use it.
> > > They just open and print documents with it. If someone tried to
> > > actually use it as a word processor, he would find some of 5+ years
> > > old bugs and lack of features much earlier.
> > > Nowadays there is no free alternative to MS Office suite and costly
> > > third-party utilities: spellchecker, bibliography/formula editors
> > > and so on.
> > That's a hilarious statement from someone posting to a list dedicated to
> > a free alternative to MS Office.
> When was the last version released?

Are you talking about release of "StarOffice" or LO?

No free alternative to MSO?  No spell checkers, etc.? Something is not 
right somewhere.

LO is touted as THE best alternative to MSO.  How many spell checking 
dictionaries do you want?  200+ is my last count, with about 20 
localized Spanish ones.  My own American English one has over 797,000 
words in it.  Grammar checkers are the problem, though.  No one makes 
one that works well for all its users.



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