On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:19 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > > Would it be possible to go ahead and use the best choice, odf, and > either allow them to use an add on for their MS Office, or co-install > OpenOffice. It is still a free solution, and is better in the long > run. Maybe they will learn OpenOffice is quite a viable choice and they > will dump the MS tax. > > -- > Joe Morris > Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 > > On that note, I'd like to offer up my little bit of amusing anecdote. About a year or so ago, I set up a friend's computer, installed everything from scratch. (ugh yes, Windows included.) And I installed OpenOffice. Told her she should try using that since she did not have a copy of MS Office laying around.
A couple of months later, she called me complaining that OpenOffice was too cumbersome and her daughter was complaining that she didn't understand it because everything she learned in her elementary school computer class taught MS Word. We had a little bit of a heated discussion, and I told her that a) she can't afford MS Office anyway and b) she shouldn't be teaching her daughter to be MS centric and to broaden their horizons as one of these days you're going to have to start using OpenOffice or some other non-MS product. Last weekend, I had the pleasure of learning that her employer now requires everyone to use OpenOffice and not MS Word. Smug satisfaction? Yes indeed. > > > -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
