Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

2011-08-13 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-08-12, David H. Lipman wrote: Many of the MS MVPs I know aren't swayed by Microsoft and suggest *best* solutions that may not be a Microsoft solution. Yeah, I'm not surprised to see an MVP giving a good answer. Now if it were an MPM, then I would really be surprised.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

2011-08-12 Thread David H. Lipman
From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't monetise it. Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few weeks ago. There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists to help the 2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

2011-08-12 Thread Tom Davies
H. Lipman dlip...@verizon.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 20:21:53 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums! From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

2011-08-12 Thread Andy Brown
David H. Lipman wrote: From: Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't monetise it. Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few weeks ago. There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

2011-08-12 Thread Tom Davies
a...@the-martin-byrd.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 22:57:07 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums! David H. Lipman wrote: From: Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums!

2011-08-12 Thread Andy Brown
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Great idea and that is certainly the way MS would like it but sadly MS Office 2010 documents often seem to go a little wrong in MS Office 2007 and vice-versa. Earlier versions of MS Office can't read/write the format used by MS Office 2010 or 2007 at all without