OpenOffice, as time goes on....

[raublekick]

So we're comparing a propriatary, 15+ year old office suite to a fairly young (unless you consider Star Office) suite using a extremely new open document format? Fair? Not at all in my book. Add the fact that it's built by mostly unpaid hobbyists. And lest we forget the Linux world... find me a better office suite and we'll talk.

The memory footprint is right, but those times seem waaaaaay too high. I've never had a problem with OOo 1 or 2 being slow.

I just thought of another counterargument... Who makes Office? What OS does it run on? Who makes that OS? Who's most likely to write highly optimized code on that OS? Granted, OpenOffice isn't highly optimized on Linux, but again, unpaid, free, etc... I want this guy to add the Mac Office port to the test.