Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

       yes, same here ... but it's like 'talking to a brick wall'  ;-)



From: James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was:
Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


Urmas wrote:

> "James Knott"  сообщил(а) в новостях
> следующее:529918D1.30907@rogers.com...
>
> ...and then hold [created documents]
> hostage, until the users coughs up for MS Office.
>
> There is immense number of software capable import DOC files, due to
> their format being virtually unchanged since 1997 or 2007. Including
> the Word Viewer, of course.

The problem is so many are not aware of alternatives.  If they want to
access their documents, they think they have to pay MS.  I do what I can
to educate them.  BTW, several years ago, I worked for a company that
used OpenOfice.  However, I suspect it was because they were too cheap
to pay for MS Office.  ;-)

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