"Yes my friend, but I said OPEN OFFICE not STAR OFFICE... Open Office is Star office 5.2 plus/minus some features... apparently one of the features Star Office has that Open Office doesn't is, quoting from SuSE 8.1 User's Manual, page 162 "The spell checking utility Sun purchased for Star Office... replaced (in open office) by... myspell"." Actually.... StarDivision, the original author of the StarOffice suite of software, was founded in Germany in the mid-1980s. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems during the summer of 1999 and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 2000. Future versions of StarOffice software, beginning with 6.0, will be built using the OpenOffice.org source, APIs, file formats, and reference implementation. Have you ever used SO 5.2? No is the resounding answer from that corner of the room. Oh by the way, bringing in Star office was a valid point, which you failed to miss as you were so keen on pointing out Word (which costs about $400). Yes SO6 contains some more items, a few more filters and such like. "Well... I cannot think of many computer tasks SIMPLER than word processing and spelling checking... this is as real-life, end-user and productive as you can get... I do not care if I cannot play GTA3 or watch "The Bachelorette" on my linux-laptop... but not being able to write a simple letter and have it spell-check IN ENGLISH is something that I consider a pretty BIG FLAW. " Well thats your opinion. My opinion is very much different in that both have caught my "spelling" errors to *my* satisfaction. If I miss something as big as "ofessional" in a document when reading it back I don't even deserve a "spellcheck". Of course this is my opinion :). Finally, what makes you think that a spellcheck is that simple? Might seem on the outside rather simple, but you have a lot of complex math going on that you don't see.
PS Now I know the avalanche of hate mail is comming... no worries, I already have all my filters for asshole, stupid, pendejo and others ready for it!!! Bring it on baby!
This just sums up your real attitude, you're just here to Troll...And on
a really quite small issue.
This is a SuSE mailing list, if you want to troll on about how bad Open
Office is, may I suggest going here?
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html
At least that way your issue can be addressed. But of course, you're not
serious.
Ever even tried installing more dictionaries?
http://ooodi.sourceforge.net/OOodi.html
Sheesh, talk about an obnoxious user...
Matt
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Matthew Johnson