[nzlug] MS Word in School Macs

[Mathew Carley]

[Note: As I have not downloaded NeoOffice in quite some time, I actually 
researched and corrected myself in parentheses within the paragraph 
while writing this message, hence the apparent randomness. Or it could 
be because the Midnight Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun is 
getting to me. It's 23:48 and I can still see outside.]


While NeoOffice doesn't look like a robust replacement candidate now, 
imagine what it could potentially be like in 2-3 years?

I personally would be interested in porting OOo 2.x (or 3.x, 4.x if they 
are up to that version by 2009-2010) to the Mac platform, and if it 
takes on the Aqua interface and replaces NeoOffice/J (which is still 
based on OO 1.x isn't it?) then all the better. (I stand corrected 
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php - Important: After 
installing, get the latest bug fixes by downloading and installing the 
latest NeoOffice patch installer.)

Why not just get a slightly more stable version (2.0 instead of 2.1)? 
Then again, older doesn't always mean better :)

With all the new code-y stuff on Macintosh these days, whats stopping 
someone from porting it directly and/or using Cocoa or xtools or 
whatever is at their disposal now to make it work -especially on the 
Intel-based Macs. The source code is there. It's GPL - go, use it! (Oh 
wait, after a quick read: 
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/aqua-prerelease/index.html its 
being done... and OOo for PowerPC based Macs with X11 is done...)

So... uh... anyway... going back to my original statement. OOo for MacOS 
X *OR* NeoOffice. 2 years (+1 to make a decision). Any questions? Go.

Mathew

>
> I also agree that NeoOffice does not look like a robust replacement
> candidate... although I suppose most school kids aren't exactly power
> users :)