Re: Open office

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>]

Lars Schimmer wrote:

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> Adam Stiles wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:09, Rob van Kraanen wrote:
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> > A lot of people think they need OOo for the same reason that a lot of people 
> > think they need MS Office, or Windows.
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> Because it IS used.
> We are all NOT private persons and if you are at office, you NEED some
> software which IS stable for some years and which works nicely with MS
> Office docs and produces some nice files.
> And you need something which works on nearly all platforms, Apple OS X,
> Windows XP AND Linux.
Some ms-office compatibility is nice, fortunately openoffice is not
needed for that.  I chuck the .doc/.rtf at abiword, and gnumeric handles
the excel stuff.  About a hundred times faster than openoffice, which
I only ever use to read the _openoffice_ documents people occationally
send me.

Helge Hafting