[gobolinux-users] open office versus OO.o

[Jonas Karlsson]

2006/7/18, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop>:
> "Sean E. Russell" <gobo at ser1.net> wrote:
> > And yet OpenOffice does it, really well.  Not only for Word, but for Excel and
> > PowerPoint, and in business these latter two are almost more important than
> > the first.
> [...]
> > Not well enough for business.
>
> Well enough for my business and I think most PowerPoint users should be
> pelted with rotten fruit (and I'm not alone... look on sites like
> Presentation Zen).  People who I send documents to are happy with PDF.
> People who send me documents are OK using PDF, RTF, CSV and so on.
> This has the added benefits that any programs they put in their
> documents (intentionally or not) don't hurt me and I'm not hindered
> by anyone's love of MS Comic Sans.
>
I agree with you on all above made points, but that's just me. There's
alot of users who are stuck in organisations requiring MS-compliant
documents, and it's no use trying to force these organizations into
using a better alternative. Use MS' own strategy: embrace and extend.

-- 
/Jonas