technology: the sincerest form of flattery

I wasn't actually planning to do this post. I haven't actually used Open Office in years since it corrupted a lot of my documents. But after an avid reader pointed out the Open Office developers blatant attempt to rip-off MS I just had to critique.

I was one of the few that liked the Office 2007 Ribbon, and with MS incorporating it in Windows 7 even those that didn't are stuck with it.
Realising that the Ribbon is actually pretty good, Sun/Oracle decided to shoehorn it into Open Office. If any of you have written Java (which Open Office is written in), you will know that, to put it politely, it sucks in the UI department, so it was never going to look pretty. But not even Lucifer himself could have created such an abomination, a sight so abhorrent that to look upon it is to peer into the darkest abyss of humanity.

It is actually so awful that I have had to overlay it on Office 2010, because to look upon it's entirety will drive the sanity from you. Just look what it did to my beloved dog, I hear she is now ruler of a middle-east nation.

So ignoring the fact that Open Office is not very good, using it will turn you into a drooling lunatic, destined to live the rest of your existence with the knowledge you have seen the worst man can produce, no longer able to see all the beauty in the world.