Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4
No need to get cynical. Okay "whining" was a bit too strong though. But I wouldn't rate a word processor the #1 priority since with the online office solutions the situation isn't that bad. We actually can read, edit, modify and share .doc files convert them easily to pdf, work with several ppl on the same doc and so forth. google doc is quite powerful.
Of course I would also like some decent offline offic solution, but it seems to be quite a lot of work. And since with the online solutions avaialable I dont thnk the effort/benefit ratio is too good for such a project. But well, maybe I overrate the required effort here by far But the OOo thing reminds me a bit on Mozilla/FF. For years it was some kind of holy grail, but there was much much work due to many internal dependencies not present in MorphOS holding the port back. Then eventually Fab did the owb port and made it later his genuine browser. I think we don't miss Mozilla/FF anymore.
I think with OOo it is pretty similar. A straight port is a helluvalot work. But if someone would see a similar approach for an office solution (take the core, build your own progam around it) it could be the better. I tink that's what Kronos also suggested.
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