[geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...`

[Phil Stracchino]

Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On 3/1/06, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Doug McLaren wrote:
>>>People just can't look at OpenOffice on it's own merits -- they have
>>>to start with how well it deals with Microsoft Office documents.
>>
>>It doesn't have that many merits of its own.  It's a halfway clone of
>>crap software.
> 
> And Ms-office is probably a clone of other crap software.

Excel was basically a clone of Lotus 123 when first introduced.


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