Christopher Booth wrote:
> 
> I was under the impression that most law firms were Word Perfect Stalwarts.

In my experience they/we mostly use MS Word (Office 97 version mostly).
I use SO at home and swap files with work. I have not tried SO 6 yet but
if what someone else posted is true then it is even less of an issue.
What I believe holds law offices and SME's back generally (apart from
lack of knowledge/info/interest and time is not WP as much as accounting
and practice management software. There is none, other than a Canadian
thing called Accountix which is OK if you are (Terence and Phillip
Solicitors)in Canada.

www.accountixinc.com/linux-accounting.htm 

Maybe it is configuarble enough to use for Aust. (beyond my limited
expertise) It is also proprietry. If it is a good system and were
readily confurable I may be able to get a small consortium interested in
paying to get it running for Aust business circs. 
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 00:02:55 +1100 (EST)
> "Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > It's interesting that you say you are a lawyer and hence I assume that you
> > use Linux/SO/etc in your practice.
> >
> > I have a friend who is a Sydney QC and would like to get his practice off
> > M$, but his main arguement is that all his business associates who deal
> > with him want to transfer material in M$ Office.  Yes, I know that SO with
> > do M$ Office, but it is not native.
> >
> > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I am an SME. I found out about Linux through being an an Intellectual
> > > Property Lawyer (and yes IP it is an oxymoron for Lawyer especially for
> > > computer literacy). I have tried the Law Soc of NSW and THEY have no
> > > idea but I am working on them.
> >
> > --
> > Howard.
> > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people
> > Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com
> >  "We are either doing something, or we are not.
> >  'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'."
> >
> > --
> > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
> > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

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