Date: 18 Feb 2002 08:42:42 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014449929.13fb95@mired.org> Cc: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <m2n0y7tc3h.fsf@set.ehsrealtime.com> In-Reply-To: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> References: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org>
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"Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014449929.13fb95@mired.org> 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 gotta weigh in on this one.
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