Re: Crossover / Wine cannot install Office

From: David L. Johnson (david.johnson_at_lehigh.edu)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:46:19 -0400

On Sun, 16 May 2004 12:38:38 +0100, Joe wrote:

> I'm in business. I have customers. They use MS. How will avoiding MS
> products help me do business?

Open Office reads/writes Office formats. Where is the problem? If you
just want, for some bizarre reason, to appear to be a real MS user, then
use it.

> No, that's just the showstopper. Most exchange of working documents
> involves Excel. There's good exchange with OO, but it's certainly not
> perfect.

I've never had a problem, using either OO or gnumeric.

> No. The issue is whether 'Word' documents created by OO will open
> *intelligibly* in a recent MS Word.

They will.

> Nobody's bothered about exact
> formatting, but if someone who hopes to sell you something sends you a
> document that doesn't work at all, are you likely to buy from him?

Not an issue.

> There's no need to be offensive, this isn't an advocacy group. I'm not
> asking you to fix anything, I'm explaining why a Microsoft program
> running on an emulated Windows will solve problems that a native Linux
> program never will.

Oh, so this is a troll. Never mind. 

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David L. Johnson
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