-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Andersen wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
Heinz Diehl wrote:
At Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:37:17 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
...and if that fails, use .rtf [....] Never accept a .doc ! Always insist on .rtf if they won't give you .odt Why? I certainly know that .doc files can contain a macrovirus, but are just interested in what moves you to not use .doc in communication with Word users.
But more to the point, the preachy linux guy demanding everybody else conform to HIS standards will win you no friends in the office. Push it too hard in some environments and you will find yourself installing Vista under orders.
BTW Opensource + standards != OO + linux only. (There are MS admins who have been actually daft enough to go for Vista?, I suspect these are the ones who may end up being down sized :-) ). I was not speaking as an end (l)user, more as an ex I.T. admin who has had to deal this kind of problem in the past. In my experience when MS Office was standardised on, the nasty surprise was that on a number of occasions later upgrades/patches produced serious issues with documents produced in the previous version(s) which occasionally did not turn up until months after any upgrade. Being a closed format recovering something usable in this situation was often problematic (and resource consuming). Dealing with documents from external sources added further complications as they cannot be expected to adhere to your organisations document standards, and dealing with the doc format from such sources usually took up excessive resources when it went wrong. Using the lowest common denominator (which in this case is unfortunately rtf), usually avoids this aspect of the problem. The real long term solution is for applications to use an open common format, on whatever ones platform of choice is.
If you want to use a non-standard package (Non standard for the environment you are in), its up to YOU to make your software conform.
Funnily enough, I agree with you,... However I am speaking as someone who has had to try to move a an environment from a mixture of solutions to a single solution with limited resources. There is a limited capacity for be able to deal with an individual wanting to do their own thing in this scenario. (Including stopping them from doing it in the first place). Of the commercial offerings I have come across MS Office is easily the worst because of the range of options available for the more ignorant users to mess up their documents or configuration. So such conformance is a bit more difficult to enforce... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrQUywACgkQasN0sSnLmgI/IwCePz6h0rHQTo8hzZv32Jflxae0 TBAAoOjpNFq9bJUj+mr7UpX+weictbML =EqQ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org