The [Open Office 2.0 features list](http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/) starts looking a lot like… a Microsoft offering. Loads of little things I have no use for. Alan Cooper turns in his grave… scratch that… in his sleep.
Against entropy.
The [Open Office 2.0 features list](http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/) starts looking a lot like… a Microsoft offering. Loads of little things I have no use for. Alan Cooper turns in his grave… scratch that… in his sleep.
At reboot I talked to the European guy from Sun who’s responsible for OpenOffice / StarOffice over there (note to Olle, he was the guy in the fantastic red pants). He said, when I asked him about some of the challenges of running the project, that one of the ironic things is that when they depart from the “Microsoft way” of doing things, they get criticized by their customers / users because “that’s the way they’re used to it working.” In other words, they need to be compatible not only with the *good* parts of Word, but also the *bad* ones. I suspect the 2.0 feature list includes a good amount of “catching up with the badness.”
Those pants were marvellous.