Re: Evaluating Linux: Reality vs Hype <- New subscriber cutting in ...

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>I watch the Open Office thing pretty closely, and while I
>>have *NO* idea when it will be released,
>Understand OpenOffice had to be "gutted" of any non-Sun components
>before it went GPL.  That meant some of the GUI support, all
>printing, spell checking, etc...

Yes, it was "gutted".  Most of the lost functionality (printing, etc...) is already back,  components simply replaced with GNU equivalents of which there are many.  The only functionality going away forever is Star Mail and Star Schedule,  and good ridance to bad rubish.  M$ document importing is better than it was before.