Bruce said:
>I recently - at Ted's urging - loaded OpenOffice and just upgraded to 1.0.2
In all fairness I also indicated that it definitely had some warts but that
most of these had work arounds. One very positive thing that it has going for
it is that it has a very strong open source development community around it who
are actively fixing bugs. From looking through their lists it also seems that
their response to help requests is very good.
For the most part it is usable now and it is continuously getting better.
Also, I have been using version 1.01 almost every day (often for 8+ hours a
day) for over a year now (on both Linux and Windows98) and I have not had it
crash even once.
Perhaps they put some bugs into version 1.02?
And experiencing 3D done the German way is quite a treat! ;-)
Anyway, if there were a better open source office suite available that used
open XML file formats I would certainly consider switching.
As for the book, I still think that using a CVS is the way to go if the book is
going to be collabratively developed. If one can not use sourceforge's CVS then
I guess that you can set one up some place else. It only takes about 15
minutes to get CVS up and running on Linux.
Ted
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