Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100

Joe Hart <j.hart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to
remember Reply to ALL...

'Reply to list' would be better. There was just recently a thread
about Icedove/Thundebird extensions to achieve that.

Regards,
Andrei

Thanks, I'll check the archives because I searched for it on mozilla
and couldn't find it.

To be honest I would prefer switching to Kmail because it integrates
much better to KDE, and it is a good client, but I can't do that
because my mail has to be accessible from Windows, that my wife
insists that I keep on this PC.

She gets mail too, and says that she has to have windows for her
school. I told her about Crossover Office, but she says "Why should
we buy something so I we can run MS Office on Linux when it runs fine
under Windows". Maybe I'll play with wine and get her apps working.
I have yet to spend the time. She says OpenOffice isn't good enough,
because it can't read the .doc files reliably (thanks to the
proprietary nature of the .doc files).

If Office is the issue, and not Windows overall, then why should she buy
office when she can use OpenOffice for free and it will read and write
all MS Office files?

Why pay for Microsoft when there's a FOSS program that is not going to
be an infection vector for viruses?

Hal


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