-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kim.
Kim Gerback. If you did not send the original email, then please disregard this message. Your email address was apparently used to spoof this email to a email list run by a free alternative to Microsoft Office (Open Office) which does more that Microsoft Office, and is completely FREE. On the other hand, If you did actually send this misguided, uneducated message, please read this email as well as any other emails that are replies to this email. Hopefully, you'll learn of the errors contained in your statements. Disclaimer: I'm just a user of ooo (OpenOffice), and thus cannot be held legally responsible as a representative for the ooo team or the product. I am merely a happy user of ooo for almost six years. I will never re-install MS Office, nor pay Bill Gates for another application, if there is any way around it. ~ (Hey, ooo guys. Doesn't "Kim" sound like a MS plant, or ~ an MS plant sending email from an SBCGlobal (Yahoo) home ~ email address, or an SBCGlobal account paid for by MS? ~ Anyway...) I'm sure that you've heard the answer over and over from many different ooo-discuss readers, both on-list and off-list. | make it compatible with Microsoft Word. If you've actually tried ooo, then you know that ooo *IS* compatible with MS Word in multiple ways. I supports three versions of MS Word, as well as compatible file formats. | I found out that I can't use Open Office documents to | send them to friends and teachers who have Microsoft | Word because the file ends up as "corrupted" and cannot | be opened with Microsoft Word. If you save your ooo document as RTF (Rich Text File), then any of your WinDoze Werd email recipients can read your document perfectly in many different word-processors, including WordPad... which has been distributed with WinDoze for almost 10 years or more. Yes, even M$ Werd can read an RTF perfectly. | Doesn't do me any good, so I bought Microsoft Office. Fine. You have made your choice to give Bill Gates and M$ more money before you even posted to the list. You may become another non-thinking "clone" willing to pay big $$$ for substandard piece of software. (Group: That was the statement that clinched it for me. ~ This post is just hate mail from an M$ employee, who ~ has been tasked with posting a message on the ooo lists, ~ trying to dissuade ooo users from using ooo, incidentally ~ the ooo project is now approved by IBM. I wonder if that ~ means that ooo is going to be under the IBM-Lotus budget. ~ ;) Hmmm, yet another reason for M$ to start fraudulently ~ attacking ooo in any way they can. :) ) Kim Gerback, or whoever you are - Why didn't you just post this using your microsoft.com or your msn.com or your hotmail.com email account? Were you afraid that we wouldn't see through your fraudulent ruse? Group: I will forward any "postmaster" responses from ~ SBCGlobal.net, for all on-list to see. Peace, All. Barry Smith - - sent from Thunderbird, a FREE email program that supports email better than M$ OE or M$ Outlook ever could. PS: Yes, I use email encryption (see my key ID mentioned below). ~ I prefer that direct communication between email users ~ be protected through non-government-regulated tools. ~ I'm not anti-government, nor anti-establishment. ~ I'm just "Open" and honest. Kim Garback wrote: | Hi, wonderful minds of Open Office. | | Here's an idea about how to market for Open Office: make it compatible with | Microsoft Word. I wasn't happy to begin with because Open Office doesn't | have all of the options Microsoft Word offers for its documents. Then I | found out that I can't use Open Office documents to send them to friends and | teachers who have Microsoft Word because the file ends up as "corrupted" and | cannot be opened with Microsoft Word. Doesn't do me any good, so I bought | Microsoft Office. | | Just thought I'd let ya know: your product sucks. | | Kim | - -- Barry Smith (2008-01-21 2048 no expire) <bnsmith001 [at] gmail [dot] com> Public Key ID : 0xBA649960 Key fingerprint : BAF9 A3F3 DF31 5038 1D72 442C 80E9 FF84 BA64 9960 If you can't find my key, tell me what keyserver to upload it to. Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by Symantec Antivirus Corporate edition (http://www.symantec.com). Version: 10.0.0.359 / Scan Engine 103.0.2.7 Virus Database: 100321d Release Date: 2008/03/21 rev. 4 Peace and Love! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfpRxkACgkQgOn/hLpkmWDx/gCfQbjHvbsJ2PKxKMOYHnfYg+iw jp0Anj09Cfomut0TqUOkW++n6xYawI4f =U0LR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
