In article <ntyej.22089$L27.8819@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As for the flip-flopping about the reading, I don't get you. Is there
> one person who keeps going back and forth on this issue?
Roy's been back and forth a few times. If he's trying to argue that you
can ditch Windows for Linux, then OpenOffice and other Linux apps read
and write .doc files great, so you'll have no trouble with your
coworkers who refuse to see the light and stick with Windows. But if
someone (especially a government entity) publishes something in .doc
format, then they are forcing people to use Microsoft products, because
they are the only things that can read .doc.
Apparently, the ability of open source programs to deal with .doc is in
a state of flux, and always happens to be at any given time just what
will fit best with whatever argument he's trying to make. :-)
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--Tim Smith
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