... > The compatibility problems with both Open Office or Star Office and M$ > Word go far deeper than that. Nearly all of the VBS stuff failed for us > one way or another. I do understand that the more politically correct > portion of Linux world finds this stuff distasteful, and I don't agree, > but when a customer sends you a document full of it, it's not a money > making proposition to tell them 'Fix your document so I can do business > with you'. That leads them to another vendor and you're at a > disadvantage. ...
So where were we, the Linux community, during remedy phases of the M$ anti-trust trials/lawsuits! I very disappointed that all the focus was about what was/not incorporated into the OS when the fact of the matter is that the real problem is M$ has a monopoly on business document formats. A real remedy would be to force M$ to use the OO format as its native document format for the next, say, 10 years. Then we�d really be competing on the merits of functionality. Not only that, but Office 11 will use a bran new file format, perhaps part of this is truly innovation, but I�m sure they are not too upset about throwing OO compatibility off-balance for a year or two. All I wanted was something like Word 4 that didn�t crash when I opened a document larger than 20 pages. OO is great on that point, but I too have to work in the real world where all the lemmings choose Office. Cheers, Jason. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
