Rodolfo, As student, I have downloaded SO7 versions for free but I never tried them. Could you tell me( maybe off list to not bother others and in Spanish if you can) if there are some significant advantages in SO7 to try it or can I avoid the effort? >From my personal point of view, I believe in using OS software to improve it, even if the OS software is worse than the proprietary one. See for example, at the beginning, Netscape versions were more robust than Mozzila but Mozzila conduced to Firefox. Thanks, Julian -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rodolfo J. Paiz Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:35 To: Ryan D'Baisse; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Linux Word Processors On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:38 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > I'm trying to find a professional word processor for Linux without > using Crossover or Wine. [...] I am downloading StarOffice v7.0 from > Sun's site, at the moment, but do not know of a single person who is > using it. > I use StarOffice 7, and have done so since it was released. I have been extremely satisfied with the product, even though I routinely exchange complicated financial models with about 30 people in various companies, all of whom use MS Word. The only "trick" I learned in order to obtain peace on Earth was to save documents which I created, and which only I would use, in StarOffice formats. Docs which I created but knew I would share, I saved initially in MS Office formats. Circulating them then never caused any problems. StarOffice has been enough of a success that I am close to convincing my boss to move part of the office to Linux and StarOffice based on its performance on my computer. I am now testing OO on FC3 and will also test the upcoming OO2 when it's ready. However, I've been happy enough with StarOffice that I will buy a copy of StarOffice 8 when it's released, *just* to support their efforts even if I end up not using it. Given my experience so far, the likelihood of my using SO8 is very high. And my satisfaction with SO7 has also been very high. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
