Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-11 Thread Cor Nouws
John McCreesh wrote (5-8-2009 9:08) On Tue, August 4, 2009 20:49, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: [snip] I usually send PDF files, and attach the ODF if the other party is supposed to edit it. In the worst case scenario I send RTF. It is something like vegetarianism. I hadn't thought of it like that befo

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-05 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, August 5, 2009 16:29, Drew Jensen wrote: > John McCreesh wrote: >> On Tue, August 4, 2009 20:49, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> I usually send PDF files, and attach the ODF if the other party is >>> supposed to edit it. In the worst case scenario I send RTF. >>> >>> It is something li

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-05 Thread Drew Jensen
John McCreesh wrote: On Tue, August 4, 2009 20:49, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: [snip] I usually send PDF files, and attach the ODF if the other party is supposed to edit it. In the worst case scenario I send RTF. It is something like vegetarianism. I hadn't thought of it like that before :-)

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-05 Thread Steven Shelton
On Tue, August 4, 2009 20:49, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: > I usually send PDF files, and attach the ODF if the other party is > supposed to edit it. In the worst case scenario I send RTF. I have never had any luck saving RTF files in OOo. The formatting always gets so munged that I can't even read it whe

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-05 Thread John McCreesh
On Tue, August 4, 2009 20:49, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: [snip] > I usually send PDF files, and attach the ODF if the other party is > supposed to edit it. In the worst case scenario I send RTF. > > It is something like vegetarianism. I hadn't thought of it like that before :-) But it's true - when vegg

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-04 Thread MÁTÉ Gergely
Steven Shelton írta: > Frankly, a lot of them are still running whichever version of MS > Office came out in 1998 or 2000 (I get lost in which version is which) > and they have no incentive to change. But if I send any of them an ODF > file, they'll have no idea what to do with it. There are stil

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
2009/8/3 Steven Shelton : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: >> By the way I think that teaching people to save files in restricted >> formats is a bad thing in terms of marketing, as it virally markets >> those formats. > > > True, but . . . I routinely share

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-03 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: > By the way I think that teaching people to save files in restricted > formats is a bad thing in terms of marketing, as it virally markets > those formats. True, but . . . I routinely share motions, briefs, and other legal docum

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-01 Thread Gabriel Gurley
In fact, schools do not *teach* students anything in the IT area. Rather, they *train* them to use specific software on specific hardware. I remember a friend learning word-processing - rather than teaching the principles of formatting, and making the students *think* about what they wanted

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-07-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Alex Fisher wrote: >> 2009/7/31 MÁTÉ Gergely : >> > Just found this: >> > http://linux.com/learn/tutorials/31384-school-is-out-impress-is-in >> > >> > By the way I think that teaching people to save files in restricted >> > formats is a bad thing in terms of marketi

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-07-31 Thread Alex Fisher
> 2009/7/31 MÁTÉ Gergely : > > Just found this: > > http://linux.com/learn/tutorials/31384-school-is-out-impress-is-in > > > > By the way I think that teaching people to save files in restricted > > formats is a bad thing in terms of marketing, as it virally markets > > those formats. > > > > Regar

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-07-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
2009/7/31 MÁTÉ Gergely : > Just found this: > http://linux.com/learn/tutorials/31384-school-is-out-impress-is-in > > By the way I think that teaching people to save files in restricted > formats is a bad thing in terms of marketing, as it virally markets > those formats. > > Regards, > Gergely Agr

[marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-07-31 Thread MÁTÉ Gergely
Just found this: http://linux.com/learn/tutorials/31384-school-is-out-impress-is-in By the way I think that teaching people to save files in restricted formats is a bad thing in terms of marketing, as it virally markets those formats. Regards, Gergely