On 6/2/12, Wolf Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > When the US gov went to word from wordperfect sometime around 1994, pretty > much everybody who interacted with the government went to MS Office within > a year or so. > I expect we will see a similar effect from Brazil and other governments > moving to OFF. > When I installed 3.4 on windows 7 and on Ubuntu Linux, I was given an > option to allow or not allow OO to open MS formats by default. The problem > may be that the default state of the check-boxes is for the file > association to be with OO. > Recently my copy of MS Office 2010 stole back the associations, so I had to > fix them to point back to OO3.4. Thus I can appreciate the feelings of the > original post.
This goes with my point that this is an expected behavior of any software. Including AOO, MSO has it, same as other non office software like browsers, media players, zip utilities, etc. File association can be reversed from the OS level or also use the Open with... option. So is not the end of the world or a "intrusive" behavior. Like people here want us to think like. > > Wolf > > PS Sorry for the top-post. Writing this from my phone. > > http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org > http://sourcefreedom.com > Apache developer: > [email protected] > On Jun 2, 2012 8:58 AM, "Paulo de Souza Lima" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 2012/6/2 Gavin McDonald <[email protected]> >> >> > >> > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: Graham Wright [mailto:[email protected]] >> > > Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2012 2:01 PM >> > > To: [email protected] >> > > Subject: Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4 >> > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > I often wonder why somebody that has Microsoft Office would have the >> > > need to install Open Office anyway! >> > > Isn't Open Office mainly for those people who cannot afford, or who >> > > are >> > > unwilling to pay for Microsoft Office? >> > >> > Perhaps to evaluate it , compare etc, so that next time renewal/upgrade >> of >> > MS >> > Office comes long, they might decide the free OOo is good enough >> > instead. >> > One can't decide which is best without trying. >> > >> > Also, on this 'dev' list, you will find many (such as me) with both for >> > testing purposes. >> > (This apparent error obviously slipped the net) >> > >> > Gav... >> > >> > >> Hi. >> >> That's not the case for this issue, but many governments (Brasil is the >> best example I can giveyou) are choosing ODF as the standard format for >> documents. Ms Windows 2007 and below aren 't able to open ODF files. >> That's >> one reason why many people have another office suite installed in their >> computers. >> >> Regards >> >> -- >> Paulo de Souza Lima >> http://almalivre.wordpress.com >> Curitiba - PR >> Linux User #432358 >> Ubuntu User #28729 >> > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org
