虽然我是 open source 的拥护者，但有人说 Open office 惨不忍睹，我也不得不承认。
在 Open Office Writer for Linux 下，按下 Ctrl + C 企图拷贝“邮编”这两个字，程序就死了。我试了好几次，Open Office 每次都死。这种毛病也真稀奇。
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Open Office惨不忍睹
Friday, September 11th, 2009我离微软而去
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007曾几何时，我是那么地崇拜Microsoft，崇拜Bill Gates，崇拜Windows, Office, Exchange，崇拜Desktop 1000/2000/4000/8000…
现在，Windows仍然每天用，MS Office也是我用得最熟练的Office软件，vba我虽不精通，但编几个小function满足一下所谓的办公自动化的要求还是可以的。但是，考虑到将来，我今天正式作出一个痛苦的决定，不再投资时间在vba上，不再钻研Microsoft其他高深的产品，比如Microsoft Dynamics, SBS, SitePoint, etc.
省下来的时间我要全面拥抱微软产品的替代方案。对于像我这样已经被微软洗过脑的人，可能要花较长的时间来熟悉其它产品的设计思维，那就从现在开始吧。我想从最近的一个项目入手，用OpenOffice Basic替代以前的VBA，但今天玩了一整天的OpenOffice Basic， 连个对话框也没搞出来，万事开头难啊。
可能有些人早认为微软不是以后的主流，但我还没有100%确信这一点，现在退出我心里也忐忑，有点像赌博。我希望我的选择顺应了一种趋势， 我希望微软少了我就不行了，呵呵。
openoffice, staroffice, starsuite, which one is which?
Monday, December 17th, 2007I have been using OpenOffice for a while. Though I heard about StarOffice, I was not bothered finding out what it was until google includes it in a recent release of GooglePack. I am pretty interested everything recommended by google, so I downloaded GooglePack today, mainly for StarOffice. Then I played with StarOffice for a couple of hours, comparing it with OpenOffice.
At last, I mixed up StarOffice with OpenOffice. They are of the same sponsor, they have the same interface, and they are both free and open source. Although I read an article carefully about “OpenOffice vs StarOffice” features, the difference is insignificant so that 99% of users can’t distinguish StarOffice from OpenOffice. I am among those 99%. I think even the developers of StarOffice and OpenOffice are confused with these two Offices. They put documentations of both on StarOffice site, and divert APIs of both to OpenOffice site.
I came across another product called StarSuite, which makes conception even more complicated. In English version of StarOffice 8 documentation, it calls itself “StarOffice 8″; in Chinese version of StarOffice 8 documentation, it calls itself “StarSuite 8″, and I could not find any Chinese version of documentation which exactly titled as “StarOffice 8″. I assume these different language versions of documentation are referring to the same product, but StarSuite is not free because it includes some non-free extensions.
