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Excel is limited to 65K rows, OpenOffice, last I checked was limited to 32K.


Ahh. Hadn't realized that. Don't do spreadsheets with > 32K rows that often. And I would argue that if you have more than 1000 rows, you are using a spreadsheet for something it was not intended for - and then 64K is almost as bad as 32K.

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Plus its word processor looks bad. Really really bad.

True. But not quite as bad as MS Word.
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There are other costs beyond sticker price.

Absolutely. The thing that is priceless to me is portability across platforms (as someone who uses Windows, Mac, Linux and BSD on a daily basis).