On 3 April 2010 14:22, Michel Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 02/04/2010 05:51, Theo Schmidt a écrit :
>> With DOCX I'm uncertain what do do now that OpenOffice can open these files. >> When somebody sends me one I somtimes pretend I still can't open it and ask >> for >> a PDF, RTF or even (Horror!) DOC. I generally explain that DOCX is a bad idea >> because the majority of people can't open it, i.e. everybody who hasn't got >> an >> up-to-date program or plugin. I expect this actually includes more >> Windows-users >> than Linux-users. > The point in docX is that actually OpenOffice (>3.x) users can perfectly > handle them (at least for quite simple documents that represent, say, > 99% of the production) whereas users of somewhat old versons of MS > Office cannot read them. > At this peculiar time, it's a very good help making users migrate or at > least install OpenOffice :-) > So despite the fact tha docX *is a bad idea*, it's inherent lack of > backward compatibility helps a lot Free Software in some cases :-))) Heh. That's a reason to send people .docx then ;-) - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
