office on wine

[James Richard Tyrer]

Andreas Mohr Usenet 06/01 wrote:

> Right now at least Word 2000 is definitely not usable for "real" work.
> And BTW, I don't even care about Word. I don't want to actively support
> this binary incompatibility crap, so I definitely won't submit any fixes
> for it.
> If you need an office tool, use either Open(Star)Office (which is said to
> get better and better) or KOffice or AbiWord or whatever.
> Or, much better (for typesetting), use LaTeX.
> 
> Word should really become an extinct species ASAP.
> There's just no place in the "free" world for such a "tool".
> That's my official opinion. Flame me, beat me, ignore me ;-)
> 
Yea!

JRT