After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Funkenbusch belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 04:47:29 +0000 (UTC), owl wrote:
>
>>> 6) Or, he could have used the OOXML translator for OpenOffice that allows
>>> OOo to read OOXML documents
>>> http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~
>>
>> Which is what he did.
>
> No, it's not. At least, it doesn't appear so. He could have downloaded
> the translator plug-in right then and there to run in OOo and import and
> resave the documents. But he didn't do that.
Yeah. It was real easy, wasn't it? He had to beg off for the moment
and devote some time to searching for another solution, using a
non-Microsoft product.
Way to evade the real point, which is how Microsoft makes it difficult
to /not/ purchase /their/ solution, by /once again/ churning its Word
formats.
In other words, it's the same old shit all over again.
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Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals.
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