Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

> Enviar: lunes 30 de abril de 2018 a las 17:11
> De: "James Knott" <james.knott@jknott.net>
> Para: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?
>
> On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use LO 
> > Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will 
> > type their answers right onto the computer file and email it back to me. 
> > I need to get the file to my students in a format they can easily use 
> > with their computers. I will use .DOC for this purpose because it's the 
> > easiest solution to this situation.
>
> Recent versions of MS Office are supposed to be able to work with Open
> Document files.  Have you tried to see what happens when you use it with
> ODF files?
>
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That is exactly right, no student today should have a problem reading an odt file with MS Office as 
odt support has been incorporated in MSO since 2007 when MSO also defaulted to the docx format as a 
result of criticism of its closed formats. 

Having been sickened early on by the "advertising" coming from Apple, Samsung and others, the 
"signature" of my business mail notes that it was produced using Linux and open-source 
applications. (If I am forced to use a mobile, it notes that K-9 Mail is the FOSS source.) One 
should be making every effort to promote open source and letting the world know that there 
alternatives to the commercial applications that try to hold us captive.

In the case of students, I would go a step further with a footnote:

*The attached file was produced by LibreOffice, a powerful Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) 
office suite and saved in the Open Document Format. To learn more about FOSS, click here. To learn 
more about LibreOffice and download it for free, click here.

The FOSS link might be to this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. Of course a link could 
also be provided to a Wikipedia or other page about ODF.

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