On 08/05/2012 11:24 AM, David B Teague sr wrote:
On 7/24/2012 10:38 AM, Chuck Davis wrote:
To answer your question: Yes, I send *.odf files to others in a
business setting. When they tell me they can't open the file I
instruct them to upgrade their office suite to a more modern version
(i.e. buy new licenses) or, alternatively, obtain a (free) copy of
OOo. I told our accounting firm if they wanted to do our work they
would upgrade to read *.odf files -- and they did. Cost them some
money for new licenses but they upgraded their MS licenses to read my
files.
Congratulations! I do so wish everyone with such problems would and
could handle it the way you have.
Thanks!
David Teague
-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but
in practice there is.
Why did they need to upgrade their MS licenses to read ODF files? IT
reads that they had old version of MSO, but it would have been nice for
them to use the FREE alternative instead. Besides, was there not
threads about issues with MSO's version of reading and writing ODF
formats? I never heard any news that the newest versions of MSO worked
well with ODF.
Still, any way that gets businesses to use the ISO standard file formats
[ODF not MSO XML] is a good thing. Then the next step is for those
businesses to try and use LO instead of paying for newer version of
MSO. MSO 2013 [or Office 15] is still having problems, but so is Win8
which is due out in 2 months. So why bother. Just use LO and not worry
about MS's problems with lost revenue and their ways to get more money
out of less work.
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