danbruno.net

OpenOffice.org — for some copyright reason or another, the “.org” is part of the name of the program — is an open-source office suite. For PC it works great, but for Mac it’s not so hot. There’s a version which uses the X11 windowing system and another that uses Java; the former requires some Unix know-how and has font problems, and the latter is slower than molasses. Thick molasses. In slow motion.

Thankfully, at the recent convention they decided to make the Mac version not suck:

[...] the Mac porting team (Eric Bachard presenting) announced that they’ve decided to give up on X Windows (hey, that reminds me of why I switched to the Mac in the first place), bite the bullet, and do the thing right, in Cocoa. It’s gonna be a big tough job, but it’s worth doing.

It’ll probably take months, but it’s good to know it’s in the works.