> Enviar: lunes 30 de abril de 2018 a las 17:11
> De: "James Knott" <james.kn...@jknott.net>
> Para: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users 
> Group [Facebook]?
>
> On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use LO 
> > Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will 
> > type their answers right onto the computer file and email it back to me. 
> > I need to get the file to my students in a format they can easily use 
> > with their computers. I will use .DOC for this purpose because it's the 
> > easiest solution to this situation.
> 
> Recent versions of MS Office are supposed to be able to work with Open
> Document files.  Have you tried to see what happens when you use it with
> ODF files?
> 
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That is exactly right, no student today should have a problem reading an odt 
file with MS Office as odt support has been incorporated in MSO since 2007 when 
MSO also defaulted to the docx format as a result of criticism of its closed 
formats. 

Having been sickened early on by the "advertising" coming from Apple, Samsung 
and others, the "signature" of my business mail notes that it was produced 
using Linux and open-source applications. (If I am forced to use a mobile, it 
notes that K-9 Mail is the FOSS source.) One should be making every effort to 
promote open source and letting the world know that there alternatives to the 
commercial applications that try to hold us captive.

In the case of students, I would go a step further with a footnote:

*The attached file was produced by LibreOffice, a powerful Free and Open-Source 
Software (FOSS) office suite and saved in the Open Document Format. To learn 
more about FOSS, click here. To learn more about LibreOffice and download it 
for free, click here.

The FOSS link might be to this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. Of 
course a link could also be provided to a Wikipedia or other page about ODF.

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