Charles Marcus wrote: >>> ... I really wish the MS Word export with password protection was >>> there! >>> I was hoping to convert my organization over to OOo, but they are used >>> to using MS Word passwords to "protect" sensitive documents. Not that >>> the protection is any good, but that's what OOo would have to >>> interoperate with in order to get management approval. >> > >> Well i think you have answered your own question, move to a more secure >> encryption system and implement Open Office while at same time leaving >> the MS Word in place just as a legacy app for reading old docs. > > > Oh, come on!! > > His request is perfectly reasonable. I too am happy to see OOo able to > open MS password protected files. How [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard would it be to > add > support for their lame password in the 'Saved As' version of a .doc > file too? Sometimes it seems to me that (some of) the OOo devs go out > of their way to be difficult, just to make some kind of political > 'point' similar to the one you tried to make above. > > Sheesh. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If OOo (and some other OpenSource projects that have a strong anti-Gates bias) every hopes to make the splash it is capable of doing, it needs to quit fighting MS as its core mission and move its core mission to simply be the best Office environment in the world. If a user needs a capability, and it sounds like this would be an easy one to do, why not do what opensource does best and give it to them. It could only open doors down the road... Vision! We desparately need Vision.
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