[discuss] Thanks for OpenOffice

2011-07-10 Thread Asher
Hi.  I've had OpenOffice on my laptop before and am in the process of downloading it now to another laptop.  I looked for an email to just say thanks but found none, so I just chose one. I also want to say that there are a lot of people that are thankful for OpenOffice and free stuff in general

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2010-01-09 Thread Sean
- Original Message - From: "Ravi Seyed Mahmoud" To: Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 4:54 PM Subject: [discuss] thanks! > Just wanted to say how satisfied I am with OpenOffice. I'm angry at > Microsoft right now and OpenOffice is fantastic. Will be recommen

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2010-01-09 Thread Ravi Seyed Mahmoud
Just wanted to say how satisfied I am with OpenOffice. I'm angry at Microsoft right now and OpenOffice is fantastic. Will be recommending it to everyone. Thank Sun and everyone else!!! Ravi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-uns

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2009-01-12 Thread Douglas St.Clair
Given you association with Sun were you acquainted with StarOffice? On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:39 PM, LloydL wrote: To all those who gave a reply Many thanks. I have sorted out the problem and am learing more and more about this product. Strange that we spend a fortune with Sun each year and I

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2009-01-12 Thread LloydL
To all those who gave a reply Many thanks. I have sorted out the problem and am learing more and more about this product. Strange that we spend a fortune with Sun each year and I only came across OpenOffice a few weeks ago! Thanks again ! Lloyd LloydL wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > LOVE OpenOffic

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2008-08-11 Thread Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
Dear Members of the OpenOffice Community, Just a quick note to say a big THANKS! -- for producing such a great suite of software. Recently I used OpenOffice 2.4 Impress (under MS Windows XP) to produce a 45-slide presentation (expanded to 172 slides for point-by-point transitions) to an import

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2006-07-08 Thread ملازم1/ عدنان علي محمد
Dear manager, My name is Adnan Ali , from UAE ( Dubai ) , I’m a Head of application Support Section in IT Department in Dubai Police. I was use openoffice.org suite before 3 or 4 years ago on Linux OS , and is difficult to use it , Today I’m using this a great suite

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2006-01-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 1/12/06 3:51 AM Nikolaidis Panos wrote: > Hello, > this mail is just for saying thanks to CPHennessy for his fast and helpfull > reply to me. ++1 CP has been doing an amazing and consistent job moderating this and other lists. He deserves all our thanks! Thanks CP, Louis > > Best regard

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2006-01-12 Thread Nikolaidis Panos
Hello, this mail is just for saying thanks to CPHennessy for his fast and helpfull reply to me. Best regards Panos Nikolaidis

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2005-12-09 Thread Lyle H Saxon
Some time back, I mentioned that it would be nice to have the ruby feature available in OpenOffice, and then - a few versions later - I happily discovered that it was there! Also - I recently used 2.0 to make a three-column website page. Thanks for that capability too! Wherever we go from here,

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2005-10-31 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:06, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Daniel Carrera wrote: > [snip] > > > Microsoft is not claiming patents on any processes necessary to read or > > write .doc files. They just keep the format closed, change it on every > > release, and leave you to guess how it

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2005-10-30 Thread Lars D . Noodén
It's legal, but may I ask what prompts you to ask? There must be some origin for the doubt. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business. Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open. On Fri, 28 Oc

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2005-10-30 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Daniel Carrera wrote: [snip] Microsoft is not claiming patents on any processes necessary to read or write .doc files. They just keep the format closed, change it on every release, and leave you to guess how it works. [snip] It was my understanding that the company has sw

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2005-10-30 Thread Henrik Sundberg
Aah, got it! Thanks! No worries then. I just don't trust MS that much. I wanted to get convinced that there are no doc format litigations around the corner. I think it's time for me to sign that open document petition. /$ 2005/10/30, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Henrik Sundberg wrote: > >

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2005-10-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
Henrik Sundberg wrote: Yes, I think I understand this. But I don't understand why the doc-formats are of no concern. Can doc-filters be GPL:ed? Why? Are they licensed with more freedom? Microsoft is not claiming patents on any processes necessary to read or write .doc files. They just keep the

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2005-10-30 Thread Henrik Sundberg
Yes, I think I understand this. But I don't understand why the doc-formats are of no concern. Can doc-filters be GPL:ed? Why? Are they licensed with more freedom? If reversed engineering is allowed in this case, how could any format license be legally valid? /$ 2005/10/30, Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAI

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2005-10-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Henrik Sundberg wrote: > But if this reversed engineering is completely legal, why should the > license attached to MS Open XML format make it GPL incompatible? http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/licenseoverview.mspx In particular http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/for

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2005-10-30 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:51, Henrik Sundberg wrote: > 2005/10/29, Timothy Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Greetings, > > Thanks for your product. I was just wondering whether or not this is > > completely legal. Even using it to open certain Microsoft files? (Word, > > Powerpoint, Excel) > > I'm

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2005-10-30 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:01, Caleb Marcus wrote: > Burn it to a CD, post it to your website... if you are a programmer, you > can even change it. I've been getting a part-time volunteer worker in our Community Centre's cybercaf/community computer training centre to use OO.org, and recently burnt h

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2005-10-30 Thread Henrik Sundberg
But if this reversed engineering is completely legal, why should the license attached to MS Open XML format make it GPL incompatible? I suppose it is a lot easier to reversely engineer XML-files than doc files. Is the completely closed doc-format somehow more open than MSO XML? (I do have problem

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2005-10-29 Thread Caleb Marcus
I don't think so, but I am not a lawyer. What I do know is that MANY commercial and non-commercial (like this one) programs can do it, and they still exist. The software isn't illegal, and you don't have to use the Microsoft formats. In fact, unless you need to send files to someone else, use t

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2005-10-29 Thread Caleb Marcus
Burn it to a CD, post it to your website... if you are a programmer, you can even change it. There is nothing illegal about opening Word files in OpenOffice.org. Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Saturday, October 29, 2005 Jonathon Blake wrote: Timothy wrote: whether or not this is compl

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2005-10-29 Thread Henrik Sundberg
2005/10/29, Timothy Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > Thanks for your product. I was just wondering whether or not this is > completely legal. Even using it to open certain Microsoft files? (Word, > Powerpoint, Excel) I'm also uncertain. Is the reversed engineering ,used to construct

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2005-10-29 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, October 29, 2005 Jonathon Blake wrote: > Timothy wrote: >>whether or not this is completely legal. > It is legal to use. > You can also sell, or give away as many copies as you want to. In fact, I would say you are *encouraged* to give away copies. Spread the word. It's extremely impo

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2005-10-29 Thread Jonathon Blake
Timothy wrote: >whether or not this is completely legal. It is legal to use. You can also sell, or give away as many copies as you want to. xan joanthon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?

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2005-10-28 Thread Timothy Stockdale
Greetings, Thanks for your product. I was just wondering whether or not this is completely legal. Even using it to open certain Microsoft files? (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) Just checking, this saves a good deal of money for the average person, rather than buying Microsoft Office. I just want to mak

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2005-10-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks to all who made the launch of 2.0 so successful! As of this writing, I expect at least a million people have downloaded the application and have begun to use it. The launch was brilliant. it would not have been possible without the contributions of the mirrors (over 100!), without t

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2005-01-24 Thread Linda Mkhize
Hi Ian! Thank you, your response is well appresciated! Kind regards:Linda _ For super low premiums, click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote - To unsubscrib