On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article > <20070627025352.GE14985@santiago.connexer.com> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > That depends on your definition of "available." If the person receiving > > your document is on dialup and not in a position to download the 100+ MB > > OOo or is otherwise not sufficiently proficient to install software, > > then you are basically left with "default" windows tools, which are > > wordpad, and occasionally works or word. > > True, but wouldn't not having any proper office suite, on dialup, running > Windows make about as much sense for business as switching to MacOS for the > games? Is that a large enough edge case for anybody to bother worrying > about? > I wasn't thinking so much of the business users themselves, but rather their customers. In any case, you bring up a good point. Of course, I have also worked places where any "unapproved" software was strictly verbotten. Getting software approved at one of these places would require a presidential executive order, act of congress, plantery alignment and a lunar eclipse all in the same day. Even then the "security" folks might still not sign off. While I personally prefer OOo over MSO and try to encourage people to switch, it will be a long time yet before non-MS formats are considered "standard." Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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