I hope you and the M$-thinks-you-are-a-thief registration wizard get along ok.
Hehehe, I gotta wonder exactly how much Microsoft actually gained from this (since even the generally pro-MS press came down hard on MS for this one). BTW, I read somewhere the other day that fair use laws at least seem to indicate that it's perfectly legal to install copyrighted works on multiple PC's in a household... anyone else here this?
"Desire" is an individual thing, Tor. Requiring compatibility with M$-Office is a myth push by M$ "Developer Evangelists" who also have a Linux background. (You didn't accept employment from MS as one, did you? :) For the 13,000+ folks were I work you better be sending documents as Word Perfect compatible. Besides, with SO import-export
That brings up an interesting point... why don't Linux developers make a WP filter? It wouldn't be a moving target, and Word generally can open and save WP documents beatifully. It might be better than a Word-filter...
working as well as it does, it would take no effort to switch from one 'standard' to another as the need arises. We do it all the time at work. That is why I have installed SO 6.0 at work. It's TCO is beginning to makes sense to the computer illiterates near the top of the company food chain. Especially in these high license costs, low opportunity business times.
I can't agree more. Hehehe, care to write a StarOffice TCO article for OfB.biz? <vbg>
Seasons greetings,
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