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Hmm. Let me see. I'll pull down my Barth books. hmm. It says that we can't know the answer to this question dogmatically or with certainty, because MS Office is wholly other, and unknowable, execept as IT choses to reveal ITself. But we have to experience the 'essence' in relationship. And if Open Office moves you, as it did the authors, then it becomes THE MS Office for you.
Hmm. Let me see. I'll pull down my Barth books. hmm. It says that we can't know the answer to this question dogmatically or with certainty, because MS Office is wholly other, and unknowable, execept as IT choses to reveal ITself. But we have to experience the 'essence' in relationship. And if Open Office moves you, as it did the authors, then it becomes THE MS Office for you.
Grymir, you are impossible! Barth again?!? Well, you are quite Barthian (despite yourself) in rejecting the analogia entis. Karl Barth famously remarked that the analogy of being (analogia entis) is both “the invention of antichrist” and the only good reason for not becoming a Roman Catholic. But, now David Bentley Hart, in his well received The Beauty of the Infinite, turns Barth on his head with his suggestion that the rejection of the analogia entis might in fact be “the invention of antichrist” and “the most compelling reason for not becoming a Protestant”! He contended that it is as subversive of the notion of a general and univocal category of being as of the equally ‘totalizing’ notion of ontological equivocity.” (pp. 241-42).
Obviously your effort to know MS Office while rejecting the analogy of being between it and the lowly Open Office must be considered against the backdrop of other moves within contemporary theology. Open Office, in this event of becoming, participates in the beauty of MS Office's own infinity: “MS Office is the infinity of being in which every essence comes to be, the abyss of subsistent beauty into which every existence is outstretched.”
Von Balthasar, following Barth's nemesis Erich Przywara, anticipated Hart with a dynamic and apophatic understanding of the analogia entis. And like Hart, von Balthasar insisted on the ontological dissimilarity between MS Office and Open Office. It is hardly coincidental that Gregory of Nyssa - with his theology of the infinite - is a major influence on both theologians.
On the other hand, von Balthasar, hearing what his colleague and friend Barth was saying, tried to assimilate the analogia entis into the analogia fidei in order to preserve the freedom of the Open Office while maintaining the transcendence of MS Office.
But I digress. What the devil are you talking about anyway? All I wanted to know was what were the pros and cons with using Open Office in place of MS Office, not to hear you rant again about Barth!
Have you tried the new Beta version of OpenOffice for the Mac? It runs without X11 and integrates like any other Aqua application.
I like OpenOffice as well. It disappoints me that it doesn't come with the Thorndale font, unlike StarOffice.
One thing to be aware of: as of a couple of days ago Open Office could not open the .docx format.
Have you tried the new Beta version of OpenOffice for the Mac? It runs without X11 and integrates like any other Aqua application.
Didn't know there was one. I've gotten so used to NeoOffice I didn't look for anything else. I'll check it out.
Have you tried the new Beta version of OpenOffice for the Mac? It runs without X11 and integrates like any other Aqua application.
Didn't know there was one. I've gotten so used to NeoOffice I didn't look for anything else. I'll check it out.
I never heard of NeoOffice. I rarely used OpenOffice on the Mac before this beta version came out because using X11 made it very slow and quirky. But, I've been using the new beta 3.0 for a few months and it works great.
Does Open Office have something like MS Outlook?
Didn't know there was one. I've gotten so used to NeoOffice I didn't look for anything else. I'll check it out.
I never heard of NeoOffice. I rarely used OpenOffice on the Mac before this beta version came out because using X11 made it very slow and quirky. But, I've been using the new beta 3.0 for a few months and it works great.
I've switched from NeoOffice to Open Office beta 3 on my MacBook and now prefer it over NeoOffice. It has been much more stable for me than NeoOffice.
I never heard of NeoOffice. I rarely used OpenOffice on the Mac before this beta version came out because using X11 made it very slow and quirky. But, I've been using the new beta 3.0 for a few months and it works great.
I've switched from NeoOffice to Open Office beta 3 on my MacBook and now prefer it over NeoOffice. It has been much more stable for me than NeoOffice.
I tried downloading it from their site, but their 3.0 link is just the old x11 open office. Could you post the link you downloaded from.
Thanks.
If you save a document on a flash drive using open office,and lend it to someone, it will not open unless they also have open office on their computer
Does Open Office have something like MS Outlook?
Does Open Office have something like MS Outlook?
3.0 does and should be out in a short time.
I've switched from NeoOffice to Open Office beta 3 on my MacBook and now prefer it over NeoOffice. It has been much more stable for me than NeoOffice.
I tried downloading it from their site, but their 3.0 link is just the old x11 open office. Could you post the link you downloaded from.
Thanks.
Try this one: http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.or...macosxintelaqua&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0beta2
That's odd. I went ahead and downloaded again from that link to update to the latest beta and it worked fine. It's the Intel Mac Aqua version 3.0 Beta.I tried downloading it from their site, but their 3.0 link is just the old x11 open office. Could you post the link you downloaded from.
Thanks.
Try this one: http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.or...macosxintelaqua&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0beta2
Nope, finished downloading and installed it. It's 2.4 and still using x11.
That's odd. I went ahead and downloaded again from that link to update to the latest beta and it worked fine. It's the Intel Mac Aqua version 3.0 Beta.
Nope, finished downloading and installed it. It's 2.4 and still using x11.