Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice in MacWorld Australia

Hi :)
WOW!!!  I wish i had thought of it.  It's brilliant! :)  

Re: costs, my 'work' place (does it count as work if you enjoy it?) just bought several MSO 2010 
licenses for about £15 each.  The newer MS office comes out soon so there are all sorts of special 
offers, such as for charities, students, and other vulnerable people.  We have a chap that is 
excellent at sniffing out such deals and being able to buy in bulk helps.  
Regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 12 October 2012, 12:39
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice in MacWorld Australia
>
> On 11/10/12 23:48, Andreas Säger wrote:
> > Windows users can run MS Office easily and for little money (if any). Why should they use 
> > LibreOffice if all they want is cheap MS Office? Idealism? Masochism?
> They can also run WordPerfect, Lotus Smartsuite, Abiword and a number of other applications. Why 
> should you be so anti Windows users running LO?
> The cheapest version of MS Office in the UK is Home and Student and costs about £75. The free 
> version (Office Starter) is crippled adware (and only contains Word and Excel anyway), and that 
> only comes with a machine that has a trial version of Office 2010 installed. You can't download it 
> from anywhere.
> Surely it's better to get them running LO rather than a crippled version of proprietary software? 
> When I post in the MS Answers forums in reply to certain questions I always suggest that if they 
> can't afford to upgrade to the latest Office version, that they have a look at LO. One or two MVPs 
> do this as well.
> Once Windows users begin to realise that they don't NEED MS Office products, then it's only a 
> short step to not needing Windows at all. :-)
>
> Registered Linux User no 240308
> GBP's alternative computing:http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/  Say No to 
> OOXMLhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8
> I only accept odf or pdf documents by email
>
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