Hm.. From my perspective, I did all my coursework in sixth form using OpenOffice and Inkscape and GIMP and while using OpenOffice I never encountered any of the rather worrying issues that have been mentioned previously in this thread. It just worked. The only thing I remember in OpenOffice being a problem were some annoying bugs in OpenOffice Base - but luckily that was nothing to do with my course, I was just playing with that in my own time for the sake of it.<br>
<br>I'm just a little curious as to how long ago these horror stories are from because I do recall I few problems with OpenOffice when I first was getting into Linux - but nothing (aside from a shaky DB app) for many years now.<br>
<br><br>Chris Hayes<br>