Neil D. McAliece wrote: >True. I don't think any less of OO because of things like this. > >Practically, our users need to be able to deal with these occurrences when >they arise. Our users would stare at me blankly if I used the words >"proprietary format". All they know is that they double click the icon with >what they have now and it works. If I defaulted them all to OO, then I would >be less than popular at the moment. > >Good support for legacy proprietary formats is an essential step for average >users to be able to get away from such formats. > >OO seems to be very nearly there. A year ago you couldn't have done anything >with the 47 pages of Division survey in OO. A year ago a MS spreadsheet with >drop down pick lists was useless in OO. It seems to work just fine now. > >There are heaps of things that are nicer in OO, but users won't persevere >enough to discover them if the every day stuff gets in their way after the >change. > >Neil > > Neil
Life is busy and one should only deal with one's own problems and not others'. If your Division supports standards then you have two choices. One is to return the document to the Department, telling them you only deal with documents in an open standard or (2) tell your users that you only support open standards and so they are on their own with proprietary software products. If they want an upgrade it will only cost them $800 from their wages (although I've just heard from this nice girl on the internet called Veronica who can sell it to you for only US$80). David -- For secure communication with the GMC see http://gmc.net.au gpg key Secure Mail (Current 10 February 2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x9CAE0C53 at keyserver.medicine.net.au _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
