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Once again Donnie has proven he is either completely clueless or an outright barefaced liar. And as far as Sxooter_z goes, he had best do a little reading for a change and then make up his mind which one he is going to be, clueless or liar.

Open Office is not secure, never has been secure and never will be secure. This isn?t conjecture, its an established fact widely reported on around the net for years, and continues to have security issues to this day as was recently reported in bugs that required a series of patches or a complete upgrade. What they are not telling you is there is flaws in the new upgrade as well, but its going to take someone who wants to spend the time to go in and find them the way MS does, or IT security firms do. Nobody is in a big rush to solve Open Office problems though so they typically lay their and rot for months until someone finally admits to them. Follow the lower links for just a few of the reports we have seen of Oo issues that have come up, one link shows 2005, others go right to a few days ago. Open Office will always be a sieve.

http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin-20060629.html

http://tinyurl.com/fh52z

http://tinyurl.com/jfpff

http://tinyurl.com/jy6xv

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395516


And as far as Open Office so called superior performance goes? Ha. It gets by, but it?s a clearly inferior product when you compare it to Windows Office. Ha! In fact a lot of people who use open source will tell you that Open Office has problems and they will not use it. Read the following quote from madpenguin.org, a pro Linux website;

?No open source project is perfect, and OpenOffice.org certainly has flaws. Some people complain that it is too bulky and slow to load, especially when compared with Koffice or GNOME Office or AbiWord or text editors such as Emacs. Some people don't like the fact that there is a greater emphasis on Java in OOo 2.0.?

Donnie has no clue, and I think we are all getting just a little tired of a guy who obviously doesn?t know anything, and doesn?t appear to want to take the time to read a little so he might stumble across the truth. Donnie either grow a brain and shut your cake hole or just plain go away.

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