Re:French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
by davidgerard on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @05:07PM
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Upvote for linking the bug reports with test documents, by the way - so many compatibility complainants don't actually produce the bugs.
I don't know how you can claim that there are no serious problems with compatibility when you can't even import word docs that have charts or diagrams in them. This is stuff I was doing for my lab reports in HS and our marketing documents are full of this kind of material. These are not esoterica features we're talking about.
In a vacuum, LibreOffice / OpenOffice are perfectly usable word processors. In fact I prefer the LO UI over MSO's ribbon interface. The problem is MSO is the industry standard. So until they take compatibility seriously, they are going to be relegated to home users.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65865
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66058
[3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58521