It is actually the fact that they are using a proprietary document
format is what irks me. True that OpenOffice.org can open the files
but can it render it accurately? I really doubt it.
On Oct 11, 2006, at 5:52 AM, renlux wrote:
yes. actually I can view and edit microsoft word documents using
openoffice so for me it's not a problem. but the one that irritates
me is the "get microsoft word" button in their website.
On 10/10/06, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On
10/10/06, renlux < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it's easier for gov.ph's webmaster to put "download
Microsoft Office"
> and "download Adobe PDF reader" buttons in ther website but I
always wonder
> if it's also easy for their conscience to encourage Filipinos to
buy those
> expensive Software. And sometimes I'm asking myself, is the
Philippine
> government a promoter of Microsoft Products and non-open standards?
Playing the devil's advocate, you don't really need actual MS Office
to open the documents in MS formats on windows. You just need the
viewers really. They actually work with wine even.
Editing them is another story.
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