On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 17:22, Michael Halcrow wrote: > As in times past, we should be promoting OO first and foremost at the > booth in September. I hate to see students literally throw their > money away by purchasing MSOffice (or throw their ethics away by > bootlegging it or agreeing to its license). There is a booth > reserved, I hope?
Amen. I agree completely. My siblings have started to use OpenOffice on windows and linux. For them, except for some minor MS Word import issues (bullets don't work quite right across the translation), things are great. A good example of how the open file format of OpenOffice rocks is to take a look at a very simple program, "imposter" which is a gtk-based standalone OpenOffice Impress viewer. All without any OO dependencies. Still missing a lot of things like transitions, but other than that it's quite effective. Michael > > Mike -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
