-----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> Reply-to: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> To: jsloz...@gmail.com <jsloz...@gmail.com>, users@global.libreoffice.org <users@global.libreoffice.org> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ? Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:36:28 +0100 (BST)
Hi :) It's not "the only". There are choices. It's not hugely tough to uninstall LibreOffice and install Gnome Office, AOO, KOffice, Calligra, Google-docs or even Kingsoft or the weird one that comes with Macs. I'm sure fanboys/girls of each could successfully argue why 'theirs' is the best. Whichever you prefer it's good to know it co-operates with all the others. It's only Microsquish that tends to restrict the types of formats you can use and the interoperability with other products. The only real question for me is can i carry on using what i prefer using and still communicate with "them" (whoever "they" are). When they are using MS the answer is a bit chancy but if they use anything else the answer tends to be yes. It's just "the icing on the cake" if they do choose to use the best (by which i mean LibreOffice) Regards from Tom :) I have installed on openSUSE 12.3: Gnome Office Calligra Office EuroOffice 2012 (AOO and LO fork/derivative) Free Office (covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - stripped down version of SoftMaker Office (proprietary) Kingsoft Office (covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint) (proprietary) Apache OpenOffice 4.0 LibreOffice both 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 (first from repositories and second from LO site) LO 4.1.1 is my primary suite I installed most for testing/curiosity/backup and for reading/editing MSO files when LO has problems. I have not had any problems with clashes or other problems between the suites <snip> </snip> -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted