Re: [discuss] Is there a list of known file format incompatibilities?

2006-09-03 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
in the help file, which lists some of the features known to cause problems (conversion challenges). Could this be something more like what you were expecting to find? -- Shawn K. Quinn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [discuss] ODT becomes ZIP on download in Windows XP Pro SP2

2006-02-02 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
with). -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Google jamming open and office ?

2005-11-26 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
of Emacs for $150 each back in the day. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Google jamming open and office ?

2005-11-26 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:53 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: On 11/26/05, Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 09:09 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: If you're selling burned CDs for $5 a pop, you don't have a lot of profit to advertise with, and if you selling pressed CDs

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
sleeping. It's a pretty sure bet all three of the other computers were running Windows. Were they? Having a PC running Windows plugged into the Internet directly, without a real, hardware firewall in between, is a recipe for disaster. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-11-17 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
unnecessary. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free

2005-11-14 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
-verbose license agreement, which will now additionally forbid hacking around or blocking the advertising. Instead of expensive slaveware, you now have zero-cost slaveware. Not much of a difference. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free

2005-11-14 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 17:45 -0600, Randomthots wrote: Shawn K. Quinn wrote: Free of charge (price) is not the same thing as free as a bird or free speech (freedom). Understand that for the vast majority (including me) the difference is almost moot. The fact that I couldn't hack the code

Re: [discuss] Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-10 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
not a slam against OOo, merely a suggestion that a online version of OOo (like, perhaps, the one Google is developing) would be a good idea right about now. Maybe, maybe not. I wouldn't want everything I do with a word processor to be routed through Google. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [discuss] OOo Writer with Outlook?

2005-11-02 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
Writer as an e-mail editor? Any format beyond plain text, including HTML, Word, and even ODF formats, bloats the size significantly, and is inconsiderate of people who pay by the byte (and yes, some people still do). -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-28 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
they are in the process of fixing (read: breaking utterly for anyone but users of their products). -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-27 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
it, but at some point that might need to be our next step... -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-27 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
thanks to the DMCA. Microsoft only cares that you keep using their products and giving them your money; they really don't care whether or not you can use a competing product. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [discuss] re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-26 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
, the last EULA I saw specifically forbade the user from running MSO under anything but a licensed copy of Windows.) -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail