From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 0:44:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C81537B404 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:44:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from set.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.197]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16cj3A-000Iar-01; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:21:28 +0000 Received: from waynep by set.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.34 #3) id 16cjQc-0000CC-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:45:42 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility References: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> Date: 18 Feb 2002 08:45:42 +0000 In-Reply-To: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apologies for partial post in previous mail. "Mike Meyer" writes: > If the only reason you're running it is to read documents from people > who are to lazy to convert them to a non-proprietary format, just go > back to running the older versions of StarOffice until you get a > document that it doesn't understand because one of them upgraded and > forgot to save it in the old version so that everyone else has to > ugprade to read it. > > Of course, the best thing to do if you're collaborating on a document > is to load it into *your* favorite application for dealing with > documents of that type, do your work, and send it back to them in that > applications format. A truly fitting sabotage. I have to weigh in on this issue. While it would be nice if we could get people to understand the evils of proprietary formats, and get people to move off of things like Microsoft Office, sabotage is often not a good option. As a business user, I have had to get a separate machine just to run MS Office. If I cannot collaborate on a document with a client, or use their Word templates to submit a tender, one of my competitors will. And in most of those cases, the client will probably end up with Windows on their server, where I would have put FreeBSD in instead. -- - Wayne Pascoe | You have zero privacy anyway, get freebsd@molemanarmy.com | over it - Scott McNealy http://www.molemanarmy.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message