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I've been using OpenOffice 6.x for a while now, and have seen very few compatibility issues when saving and opening M$ Office documents.
On 19 Apr 2002 11:48:16 -0400
Jeffrey Elkner <jeff@elkner.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 12:44, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there are a few exceptions. I can't say that I've ever
> > gotten KWord or AbiWord to open a Microsoft Word document, but I can use
> > HTML or RTF as interim formats. StarOffice does a better job, but it's
> > so bloated that it takes about 30 seconds to load on my Athlon/1GHz with
> > 512MB RAM! I know that there are lots of people working on these
> > projects, and I can be sure that they will eventually overtake Microsoft
> > Office (especially with Microsoft's fascist anti-piracy practices).
> > While there may not yet be an open-source suite (as far as I know) that
> > is as complete as Microsoft Office, few people really need an office
> > suite that does all that. For the time being, you may want a Win98
> > machine in the corner for running MS Office.
>
> While there are not yet any open source solutions to the M$ Office
> compatibility problem, there is a Linux solution. Hancom Office
> (http://en.hancom.com/index.html) is a 100% M$ Office compatible suite
> that even looks like the corresponding M$ apps. It will load and save
> Word, Power Point, and Exel files. I've been using it with my students
> who needed a way to work at home and in our Linux lab at school. It is
> cheaper than M$ Office and is available for Linux and Windows (Hancom
> now has their own Linux distro which they are marketing heavily in
> Asia), so it could be the single school wide solution to the office
> suite problem.
>
> jeff elkner
> yorktown high school
> arlington, va