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You can pay someone other than the original developer, which is a HUGE difference. If you want some specific core feature in MS Office, you need to petition MS
by NikkiA 17y ago
You can pay someone other than the original developer, which is a HUGE difference.
If you want some specific core feature in MS Office, you need to petition MS and hope they'll add it someday. If you want the same core feature in OpenOffice.org, there are experts in the OOo codebase that could do it all around the world, you could pay someone at Sun, someone at IBM, or someone that is freelance, it's your choice, and you have a free market to find who will make the change at the lowest price.
- shin_lao 17y agoSorry, no. Adding a feature in MS Office is extremely easy without the source code thanks to the powerful macros and plugins. There are companies making a living of this. It's much much easier to extend MS office than OOO.