Fuzzy Logic

I’ve been hacking lately at the official Purdue installation of Zope, a fiendish piece of software designed to limit users to only using Python as their backend language (instead of giving us some PHP access).  I’ve found Python as a web language to be overly, well, stupid.  I hate the locked down nature of the server in general and the python aspect of it is, in my perspective, ridiculous.  But now slashdot has brought news of the latest adoption of a programming language to the web: bringing C code to the server.  Please just shoot me.  Please, I beg of you.

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I was reading a story on Linux Insider asking “What’s holding OpenOffice back?“  This really got me thinking about why I personally still use MSOffice on my personal Ubuntu Linux laptop (which is my main machine).  Why is MSOffice still used on Linux distributions where OpenOffice is already installed and updated?  When Lou Dolinar attempts to tackle this question he really turns it into a theorhetical argument and gives no specific reasons why people should switch to OpenOffice as opposed to another office suite.

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