Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10008

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:45:35 -0400

Inaccurate.

MSOffice has many features, including the following:

1 Mail reception and display in HTML and text format. This HTML format also allows for easy clicking of pictures, movies, sound files, and malware. (Well, 3 out of 4, I guess.)

2 Calendar maintenance and meeting scheduling.

3 "Stickynotes".

4 To-do lists.

5 Sales Contact maintenance.

6 "Outlook Today" summary screen.

7 Rules-based filtering.

8 Mail response scripting. (I'd have to look for the details but MS Office and scripting can presumably make for a powerful "junk mail" combination.)

9 And, of course, it's from Microsoft, which means it's "standard".

Now, this doesn't mean Linux tools can't do the same; I'm using Evolution, for example, which does what I need and looks a lot like MS Office. You'll have to clarify what it means "to suck", of course; that's abut as specific as saying that a 1968 Charger with a modified horn playing "Dixie", a throaty roar, an orange color with a criscrossed blue stripe pattern on top containing some white stars, and two good ole boys going out for a spin somewhere in Hazzard County, is just a car...

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