[discuss] Re: Export OpenOffice to IRAN and other americanly forbidden countries.

2006-02-15 Thread Sam Stainsby
Disclaimer: I'm not a legal professional or expert in any way, so what I say below may be completely wrong. Be careful, because I believe it is the case that any licence or contract is overruled by the state & federal legislation that applies to your jurisdiction. In other words, even if the GPL s

[discuss] Re: Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-14 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:11:59 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Sam Stainsby wrote: >>I also work for an organisation that is unwilling to move away from >>Microsoft Office because they feel that they need the calendaring and >>meeting arrangement facilities of Outlook, on

[discuss] Re: Re: Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-14 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:14:08 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mardi 15 novembre 2005 à 08:01 +1000, Sam Stainsby a écrit : >> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:46:57 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Jonathon Blake wrote: >> >> Just what fu

[discuss] Re: Re: Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-14 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:05:29 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Well feel free to hire developers to commit to the project we surely need > as much as we can get. :) I hear you there. Unfortunately, my company is just starting up, and the only resource is going to be me for some time I suspect.

[discuss] Re: Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-14 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:46:57 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Jonathon Blake wrote: >> Just what functionality does MSO + Outlook offer, that can not be >> replicated by using OOo + FireFox + ThunderBird + SunBird + the >> appropriate templates? > [...] > > +1 > Example 1:

[discuss] Re: Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:12:37 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > Individuals can buy a Retail copy of MSO for $150. Busineses can get it for > cheaper if they buy in volume and/or buy it OEM. As both prices decrease > (MSO and just OL) the differences also decrease, to the point it would be > wasteful to bu

[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-12 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:24:27 -0500, William Baric wrote: > I had one of them who was willing to switch to OpenOffice. They didn't > have too much money and they were willing to put up with OpenOffice's > Word, Excel and PowerPoint import/export filter (thanks to MS Viewers). > They were also willi

[discuss] Re: Re: Outlook

2005-10-06 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:09:36 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > > It sounds like you are looking for replacements for Exchange Server > more than just outlook. There was a recent discussion on the Fedora > list about this. The clients have to have the features that our users want. Of course the serve

[discuss] Re: Outlook

2005-10-05 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:19:00 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > As others have mentioned, Mozilla or Thunderbird will handle mail and > addressbook functions, calendaring is under development. Evolution will > handle maiol, address book and calendaring. > > You can read more about or download Mozi