Like the Google situation many people won’t like IBM either. They’ve definitely been a long time supporter of Linux and they bought interest in Red Hat, which continues as a prominent commercial Linux solution. Not positive but IBM may have connections with OpenOffice after the Lotus escapade. Thankfully they gave up and embraced OpenOffice. They tried to reuse their purchased Lotus Notes brand. Probably people who got into Linux distros like me in the late 90’s and early 2000’s will have a lot of muscle memory related to OpenOffice, and people who started using distros after about 2011 would look at it as a pretty weird set of programs with arcane dialog boxes and visual components. I did an entire college degree using OpenOffice, so I’m already very comfortable with it. I know someone who has been a GNU/Linux user and Linux evangelizer for many years, but when he writes his Sci-Fi novels he can’t stand to use anything but MS Word because of the way the little tools and keyboard shortcuts work best for him.
On the other hand, I’m not bashing anything, I know that everyone has their favorite tools, especially for writing, and that is perfectly fine. I know that Google and Abiword and Gnumberic all have their fans, but I am not one of them.
Hi Brian, I’m pretty strongly opposed to using Google services from a privacy perspective, and every time I’ve tried Abiword and Gnumeric over the years they haven’t been the right fit for me.
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