Hi all.
Over 50% of all Microsoft profits come from MS Office. If this nut could be
cracked, those of us who HAVE to buy NT/Word to make a living would have an
alternative. M$ would be just another big software house rather than one
that can force me to pay it money so I can stay in business.
It would be nice if a way could be found before I am forced to buy Windows
2000 and Office 2000.
Question 1: is it technically feasable to have a small document opener,
perhaps running on WINE or even dosemu, that could open a *.doc cleanly and
then save it as html, xml or whatever is accessable to all OS?
Question 2: if it is technically possible, Sun, IBM, Corel, Apple and all
the usual M$bashers would have a commercial interest in getting this done.
Take out 50% of Microsoft profit and you take away the air of invincibility
that surrounds all M$ projects. Who else would have a commercial interest
in making this type of utility available?
Question 3: if it is technically possible, has someone started on this? If
so, who are they and how can we get the message to the big boys that this
person, company or organisation needs caoital and programmers and that its
in their interest to provide them?
Patrick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Kirkwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 April 1999 13:42
> To: Patrick Kirk
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: What DO you gain/lose with Linux ???
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> > I'd move to KDE tomorrow id I could open MS Word Documents. I'm a
> > recruiter and occasionally a CV comes in by fax or post but usually by
> > email. It's almost always MSWord. If a way could be found to open
> > *.docs, M$ would have a far smaller captive market.
> >
> > Perhaps thats why they keep changing the format?
>
> That's (reputed to be) exactly the reason.
>
> Has anyone tried opening Word documents in AbiWord?
>
> Matthew.
>
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