Still wining about lack of Word?! (Score 1)

One major barrier to the adoption of Linux on the desktop is the percieved lack of familiar applications, and Photoshop and Word are high on the list

Already on 2003, and we still read people wining about the unavailability of Word on Linux. Jeez...
Me and my whole organization use StarOffice/OpenOffice for a long time ago, and we don't need MS Office. When we want to send a document outside the company, we convert it to PDF. Whenever we receive a MS Office document from outside, we open it it StarOffice/OpenOffice. When we need to check if the conversion was well done, we open the document in Microsoft Word Viewer, Excel Viewer and Powerpoint viewer, which:

• Are freeware
• Run fine under Wine
• Open MS Office documents from versions 97 to XP

When will people realize that if compatibility was so crucial, then we would still be using Wordstar or an even older wordprocessor?

Regarding Photoshop, Corel Photopaint and Gimp are excellent replacements. I know they don't have all the prepress features of Photoshop. But most Photoshop users don't use prepress features!