On 2020-08-11 15:10, George N. White III wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 18:56, ToddAndMargo via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
On 2020-08-11 14:42, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 2020-08-11 13:53, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> On 2020-08-11 12:31, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>>> I like Softmaker Office
>>
>> I am seeing a 30 day trial (.rpm's, yippee) but no free version
>
> Found it:
>
> https://www.freeoffice.com/en/download/applications
Hmmmm. Not sure that is the same folks
It is.
https://linuxinsider.com/story/freeoffice-suite-is-almost-blue-ribbon-worthy-85465.html
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3305332/freeoffice-2018-review.html
https://www.lifewire.com/softmaker-freeoffice-review-1356328
It looks like a simple package. Ideal for low end users.
I may install it in place of Libre Office (LO) on customer's
Windows machine that do not have M$ Office (M$O) installed.
The inability to mix portrait and landscape pages in
Free Office is a deal killer for me though
LO is just obscure, full of bugs, and difficulty
use. I have a customer that has never used either M$0
or LO. So no "I can't learn anything new": an ideal test.
So I put him on LO. He is writing up a book or something.
He called me three times a week over three months with
LO issues. Finally out of frustration, he had me install
M$O. He has called me two in the last two months. One
was a Windows issue and not M$O. One as how to adjust
the page view.
This all goes to the economic model for open source:
give away the software for free and charge for maintenance.
Now if you are not endowed with enough money to put LO
on your payroll, you don't get your bugs fixed.
LO does come out with new feature, but the leaves the bugs
alone until paid to fix them as that is how they make their
living. And they deserve to get paid for what they do.
Wine is the same way.
My two cents
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