If read compatibility matters, send a pdf. If you want an 80/20 Office Suite that you can install anywhere, then go with Open Office.
If you want Open Office to fix a problem that doesn't exist for Open Office users, you're likely best served by purchasing a C++ book, and coding it yourself. Open Office will easily fit on a credit card CD. It'll fit on any semi-reasonable sized USB drive. Readers are crippled versions of software. Giving people a reader is a way to irritate them into purchasing a full version. Nobody will move to Open Office because they can give their friend a reader, if that was the concern, they'd send a PDF (which, in it's base install, MS Office can't even do) or even a screenshot of the document as a jpg. But both are generally useless for collaboration, so neither has any value. What will happen is that people will think you're using a stupid solution because they need to install yet more software just so you can get the read only value of a document. Either the person wants Open Office, or they want an excuse for continuing with Word. Pick one. The middle ground between those two is insignificant. KEv. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
