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Originally Posted by Thatguy

At least office2007 works and does what I want, it prints,collates,presents and just works. Granted I was very happy with office2000. Not to mention that even today right now, openoffice cannot compete with office2000 in basic useable features or speed.

Look I want opensource to succeed. Theres alot of really out of the box thinkers, but the problem is that they don't know when to stop thinking out of the box and to start putting that knowledge into it. Sure theres lot of brilliant coders in the open source world, just get them to fix a bug.

there are tickets in the linux kernel that are 5+ years old. With no fix in site either.

the only reason linux looks safe, is becuase it isn't a target yet. Mac is finding this out right now.

So your not going to sell me on quality on the average, and while there are a few OS's and some apps out there that really are very good, the bulk of them are shit and pretending they aren't is a logically falacy.

Pretending that closed source is better on the average is also a logical fallacy. I'm just saying that door swings both ways.