On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 20/05/11 00:01, Daniel Case wrote: > > know, apparently I was wasting time..) so the question is how can I > > educate these people, especially if they are willing to cancel a > > project over it? (I make my income from this stuff!) > > LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org will open most MS docs without > complaint > or issue.
I'm really not sure what the issue is here? Al ---------------- I run my own business and can open the majority of documents I get sent using open/libre office, I send most of my business documents as .pdf, knowing that everyone will be able to view and print them. I rarely mention the fact that i run my business on open source - I am not in the IT world and the majority of people i deal with would not understand / are not interested in document formats - the only time it ever comes up is when clients tell me about problems they are having with their windows systems - at which point I tell them I run Ubuntu and how stable it is! If you want to 'educate people' without causing problems with your business add a very short message to your signature saying that you prefer to use .odf with a link to site that gives a good explanation of what this is - and send relevant docs in both the closed M$ and in .odf formats when appropriate - give them a choice but don't make it hard for them to deal with you Sarah -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
