On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:11:32PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote: > I would ask why you chose Abiword as a format to send to them? Could the > letter have not been sent as html or a .pdf? To be fair, I don't know > which applications I have available on this machine to look at Abiword > format files (well, I just discovered that Abiword is installed as part > of Gnome, but I didn't actually know that until I checked).
Indeed, as far as I'm aware I don't have anything which reads Abiword documents (I can't see anything on the Abiword site which says what format they are in either). I don't use Gnome or KDE so it's most unlikely that I have it installed (I don't have it on either my Debian woody system or on my Gentoo system). > I'm not really certain of the issue you are trying to raise here, as > technically they could be using a Free Software operating system but > part of that may not include Abiword (for example). Yup. Does OpenOffice support it? My copy doesn't say anything about Abiword. > So are you asking > them to adopt Abiword? again, the other question to ask is do they only > ask for letters of complaint to be delivered in a proprietary non-free > format? If so, is it one which is in fact supported by free software like OO? A lot of places say they want MSWord, for example, but I can give them the OO exported version and it works fine. > If they did that then it would be much more of a real position > to be argued and one that I would want to take up with the local NHS > trust my MP and possibly the members of the cabinet who are involved > with IT and healthcare. In general I send text, everyone can accept that. It's not so pretty, but if it's a matter of getting the data rather than making a good impression that doesn't matter. Chris C _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
