On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 11:34:45 AM -0600, Robert Derman
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Joseph Hurd wrote:
> >You may want to put a statement somewhere that Open Office can be 
> >installed with MS Word on the same computer at the same time.
> > Joseph Hurd
> >
> The only thing that limits being able to put ANY two software
> packages on any one computer is hard drive space. This fact is so
> well known to everyone who understands the fundamentals of
> computers, that it shouldn't be necessary to mention it.

Actually, the kind of questions that pops up on this very list every
day should be enough proof that the number of people who actually
"understand the fundamentals of computers", vs "wasting whole days to
chat and download music" and calling themselves a geek for it, is so
small that it is indeed necessary to mention it.

Also consider that what most of the users we are talking about
actually mean by "installing at the same time on the same PC" is not
what you say. It is more like "can you confirm that doing so will
never create any problem or configuration change whatsoever: file
associations will work magically, all files will be saved in a format
usable with either suite without me doing anything, I'll never see any
scary message that "saving in MS Office format creates problems, do
you really want to do it?" etc", as it happens regularly on this list.

Marco

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