Re: [LUG] Suse Pro Office

[lee quick <leequick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Charrett wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, lee quick wrote:
>
> > Its a wordproccesor? what freedoms do i lose??
> > The only difference i guess is that one comes with certain conditions on 
> > use and the other comes 'as is' no guarantees no come backs.
> >   
>
> Let me get this straight, you're prefering to pay for Star Office 6, 
> rather than use Open Office which are 99% identical, but to use Star 
> Office that 1% difference you're paying moeny and being put under 
> licensing restrictions as to what you can do with it.
>
> Is that not the situation?
>
> Alex.
Correct StarOffice Has certain components which i use and which are commercial
in origin,
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/25/013225&tid=3

Plus the inclusion of a printed manual on how to work with the suite helps,something
that microsoft does not do!
So all in all i think 20 notes is pretty good compared to the 500notes MS
wants for a single user license for office.
Is there really anything wrong with using a mix of free and commercial software
together, as long as the job gets done?