On 07/06/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I use all Office products. Yes I use Microsoft at work and home and YES I use
Open office at home. Would I pay for Microsoft Office. YES. WHY? Because
Microsoft charges only $20 for an Enterprise copy to all government employees.
Would I install Open Office? YES. Why? Why would I install it if the other
one is so cheap? It's easier to install open office than Microsoft office.
Which one is greatest? I think free and powerful combined is greatest but I
might be wrong.
Open source. I love it. Both work great but who will win? Will there ever
be a battle or will we always kinda go back and forth?
SUN....MICROSOFT....office....Stop fighting...It's all getting old....EVEN
APPLE is giving up DRM....(however they fingerprint the MP3s which might be
even worse) ---YOU DECIDE!!!
Andy
I don't know whether you're trying to prove a point, but DRM has
nothing to do with OpenOffice, incompatibilities between MSO and OOo
are due to technical issues and undocumented MS formats.
I would love to use MSO, I actually really quite like the new Office
interface, and don't mind the old interface - i would love to not care
what software I use. But there are real and troubling problems with a
situation where only one companies engineers have access to the specs
that allow them to read and write your invoices, your bussiness plans,
and your letters to your gran.
When it boils down to it, there's no such thing as a universal 'word
document' in computing, just binary and a way to read it. If microsoft
had their way - noone would be able to read their binary formats.
OpenOffice has gone to great lengths to figure out what the format is
Now their implementation isn't perfect, you can thank microsoft for
that, welcome to our world.
PS: I know that there's .docx out there, but that's a whole different story.
--
Chris Monahan
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