Hi Howard,
I totally agree with you, what a shame in my country government officials try to force people to use open source software by giving them many benefits, they just dont know this might ruin our software companies.
I think there is a viable solution at the horizon. Its Sun's Star Office because of the Sun-Microsoft settlement back in 9/2004 which lets Sun users keep on using the office conversor which is prohibited for OpenOffice users since 4/2004. As soon as SO incorporates the Java language to its macros we (office users) will have a good competitor which OO isnt at all.
