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

Hal Vaughan wrote:
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?
The MS Office is already bought. The issue is when she opens a .doc file that she created on another computer with OO, it doesn't look the same. If she creates a .doc file with OO and uses MS Word to open it, it doesn't look the same.

At least she doesn't complain about me spending so much time behind the computer and with my nose buried in books about Linux.

I am a writer, and I used Word to write my books. Personally I don't like OO Writer. It, just like MS Word is overblown. I still haven't found the Perfect Word Processor, but now at least I can get the source code to one that I think is good, and if I can understand the code, I might even be able to make it my Perfect Word (Pun intended).

Joe




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