[users] Off Topic: Adobe PDF Security (was Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push)

2008-02-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
From today's slashdot: begin quote ++ | Adobe PDF Exploits In the Wild | | from the junkbusters-are-better-than-virus-scanners dept.| | posted by CmdrTaco

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread M Henri Day
2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: web at work wrote: The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts so they do not want M$ to get pissed off and not give what it needs, when it needs it. EU seems not to have that trouble. You might also find

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread web at work
We have an optioncall open source. There's NO EXCUSE for using MickySoft today.period! We all got used to the way Gates did business, but Ballmer is a lot more sneakymuch more stab you in back after he sneaks in the back door. He's every bit, if not more, driven do crush

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread jimw wagner
sorry, try this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/us_army_linux_integration/ JimW M Henri Day wrote: 2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: web at work wrote: The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts so they do not want M$ to get pissed

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread M Henri Day
2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sorry, try this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/us_army_linux_integration/ JimW M Henri Day wrote: 2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: web at work wrote: The government cannot live without their yearly licences and

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread Fred A. Miller
web at work wrote: We have an optioncall open source. There's NO EXCUSE for using MickySoft today.period! We all got used to the way Gates did business, but Ballmer is a lot more sneakymuch more stab you in back after he sneaks in the back door. He's every bit, if not more,

[users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-08 Thread James Knott
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776 http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22872163.htm -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776 http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22872163.htm Thanks, James! Excellent! Fred -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-08 Thread web at work
- Original Message - From: Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push James Knott wrote: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
web at work wrote: - Original Message - From: Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push James Knott wrote: http://www.consortiuminfo.org

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-08 Thread jimw wagner
web at work wrote: The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts so they do not want M$ to get pissed off and not give what it needs, when it needs it. EU seems not to have that trouble. You might also find this interesting; the U.S. Army is switching to Linux.