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I stand corrected.

I see your point. Yes, I suppose alone programmers wouldn't have the proper knowledge to implement such solutions. And there would be precious few cross-disciplined developers to lead such an effort for the OSS cause.

Thanks for the clarification.

I can see your point more clearly... The well developed OSS solutions are products that developers themselves use such as browsers, OSes, databases, etc.

Developers do use word processing and spread sheet applications so they don't have to go to far out of their realm of expertise to work on Open Office.org. Open Office.org is an oddity, the only reason it is at the level of maturity that it is is because it was resurrected from the failure of Star Office, a proprietary product that the market rejected.

I do give the team props for making it so refined. I have a feeling with Microsoft's new XML format OOo will be better able to do 100% perfect rendering of all MS Office documents.

It should be interesting how this competition plays out.

Posted by: mikefarinha   Posted on: 10/20/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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