Re: RTF - proprietary or open?
- From: Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:10:57 -0700
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article
<20070627025352.GE14985@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:58:17PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
John Hasler wrote in Article <87odj4vu77.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted toThat depends on your definition of "available." If the person receiving
gmane.linux.debian.user:
Alan Ianson writes:
I believe kword supports ODF now and I hope this will continue to be
the case with koffice and other word processing applications like
abiword in the future.
The problem is that most Microsoft Windows users cannot deal with ODF.
That doesn't matter to me but to some people it is critical.
I was unaware that openoffice.org was not freely available in win32
binary form.
your document is on dialup and not in a position to download the 100+ MB
OOo or is otherwise not sufficiently proficient to install software,
then you are basically left with "default" windows tools, which are
wordpad, and occasionally works or word.
True, but wouldn't not having any proper office suite, on dialup, running
Windows make about as much sense for business as switching to MacOS for the
games? Is that a large enough edge case for anybody to bother worrying
about?
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