p2exe using wine/cxoffice

[Caleb Hattingh]

The other thing (and this is always true) is that "better" needs  
definition.  On purely technical grounds, on average, MSOffice is better  
than OO.  However, holistically, OO is probably better (no lock-in, open  
standards, multiplatform and so on).  Those soft issues do matter.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:18:55 +0200, Christophe <chris.cavalaria at free.fr>  
wrote:

> Tim Roberts a écrit :
>> James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the motivation is to ween people off of M$ products altogether,
>>   Well, CrossOver Office doesn't really do that.  You're still running
>> Microsoft Office.
>>
>>> ...to get them used to working an a unix environment and to the idea  
>>> of using open alternatives rather than thinking that commercial  
>>> software is somehow "better".
>>   Regardless of your opinion on their operating systems, only a  
>> religious
>> zealot would try to argue that Microsoft Office is not better than any  
>> of
>> the open source alternatives.
>
> Some significant parts of Microsoft Office are worse than what you get  
> in OO.o Mainly, you could easily argue that OOWriter is better than  
> Word. I wouldn't try to make the same claim for the other parts of OO.o  
> though :)