[Marketing] Goodbye and Good Luck

2005-12-19 Thread Ryan Singer
Dear Marketing Project, I started participating in the OpenOffice.org Community in 2002 with an Email to then MArketing Lead Sam Hiser suggesting that he consider bittorrent as a p2p distrobution model. Since then, I have been involved in different aspects of OOo including Marketing coordination,

Re: [Marketing] ?MS Office detection of OOo

2005-12-19 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
I have a fairly new (6 month old) laptop that came with Microsoft Works 7 installed on WindowsXP. I have never used, or even opened, any of the programs in Works on this machine, but after reading the note below I fired up the "Works Word Processor" to see what I could learn. It looks like Word

Re: [Marketing] ?MS Office detection of OOo

2005-12-19 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Interesting. MS-Windows comes pre-installed with a trial version of MS Word which apparently expires after some time ... unless OpenOffice.org is installed. The claim is that the trial version of MS Word will continue to function beyond the trial period only if OOo is present: If OOo is not