From: Robin Laing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: 2005/8/17 5:24:38p > Samuel Murray wrote:
> > I'm not sarcastic with my first comment... OOo files have an embedded > > ActiveX control which allows you to open them in Internet Explorer. > An off comment, here we are trying to work on a product to work against > Microsofts dominance and then we tell someone to use IE. Ouch. :) The OpenOffice effort is not about getting people to ditch Windows. A Windows user can choose not to buy MS Office, but he can't choose whether to have Internet Explorer present. > Why wasn't is suggestted to send the person the link to OOo to install. At 80 megabytes a pop? You gotta be kidding. Even on a fast connection it'll take the recipient several hours to download it, and he needs a fast computer to install it on as well. What's easier... telling him to use an existing program on his existing computer, or getting a new program and possibly a new computer too? > How many times do we get sent a MS document and then get told to get > Word? Return the favor. At least with OpenOffice, the cost is not an > issue. :) Cost is very much an issue, and so is ease of implementation. If someone sends you a Word document and you don't have Word, it's up to you to decide if you're going to "get Word" or tell the sender that he needs to send the document in some other format. The choice is yours, always. Samuel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
