On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:06:40 -0300
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@???> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 13:47:37 -0500
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> > Honestly, if you can run MSWord under Wine, you'll have a better
> > word processor than anything Linux has to offer. They all suck.
>
> Are you advising the use of software that is neither free(1) nor
> free(2) ?
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
>
> 1 As in beer

Yes.

> 2 As in speech

Yes.

In my opinion, Libre/OpenOffice writer is so bad that buying and
using MSWord, complete with giving profit to Microsoft, is preferable if
the choice were only between LibreOffice, Abiword and MSWord.

However, that's a false choice kind of like either sysvinit or systemd:
It rules out a whole bunch of worthy alternatives, many of which are
better than either.

By the way, one thing LibreOffice Writer is great at is playing
Microsofties' silly game. They send you a word document, you edit it in
LibreOffice Writer and send it back.

But I would *never* write any new content, over 10K words, in
LibreOffice Writer, whereas I would and have done such in MSWord
(before I switched to Linux).

SteveT

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