Re: [libreoffice-users] Document formating

Hi :)
Short(ish) answer.  
Using Doc rather than DocX avoids a lot of fighting and awkwardness.  Not all because "Save As ... 
" is too geeky for many MS users and they just can't cope.  


Lengthy and tiresome answer ...

The professor probably has no control over what gets installed.  That's more likely the job of the 
IT Department or external 'support'.  That's why i suggested LO Portable.  It's probably a bit 
awkward for them but they might like it if it doesn't scare them.  He/she might prefer the 
non-ribbonised menus and the pretty icons.  

The IT Departmen probably wont respond or do anything until they have had a load of students and 
staff pushing for it.  So 1 letter is a good start but don't expect swift action.  

The Student's Union are probably getting MS Office at drastically reduced rate so they wont 
understand the financial issue or the technical ones but might be a little sympathetic to the 
ethical issues.  However, they might feel there are more important issues to address such as 
getting pens and paper cheaper or getting more funding.  

IT Students and professors probably just use pirated MS products and/or get drastic reductions.  
They probably don't understand the ethical or moral issues.  It could go either way but unlike many 
other students to IT people ...
global corporation driven by profits for corporate USA = good thing

For security and other issues IT students and professors probably believe that MS is best since it 
constantly releases security updates to patch on top of existing code instead of writing code that 
is secure and robust from the start, at all levels.  Being reactive rather than pro-active means 
people notice results and activity.  

People seldom realise the "Freedom of Speech" issue in all this, ie that FoS is only allowed after 
paying a rich global USA corporation for the privilege.  

So, although there are ethical, moral, technical, security, financial and political reasons for 
preferring LibreOffice (and other OpenSource products) most people will only understand 1 set of 
those reasons.  

So, stick to using the older MS format, Doc rather than DocX as the fastest way of getting the 
homework done.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 2/11/11, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: e-letter <inpost@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Document formating
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Wednesday, 2 November, 2011, 22:09
> On 02/11/2011, Jacob Tennant <wf8s@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > Any suggestions as my professor only uses Office2010.
>
> Explain to your professor that you are too poor to afford
> to use m$
> and so you are using LO.
>
> Ask him/her to use LO. At least this demonstrates you have
> initiative...:)
> Or to save documents in odt.
> Or you get a student edition of m$o.
>
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