[lug] Why Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Sun Nov 11 10:58:25 MST 2001


We use Star Office for internal documents, but the switching back and forth
between MS products and SO (5.2||6.0beta) results in garbled files with
horrid formatting.  Still not up to snuff for our uses, unfortunately.
Most of our proposals are done in latex and then exported to pdf.

Hugh

"Jeff"
> 
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > We are a linux shop and unfortunately when we deal with the government we
> > have to do our documentation in Microsoft Word (it's in the contracts).  We
> > are working to change that in future contracts, but Microsoft Office
> > documents still tend to be the lingua franca of the business world.
> 
> While I can't dispute the legalities, Staroffice with read/write MS
> documents.  Staroffice 6.0 (I use the beta version) is great!  Check it
> out...
> 
> Jeff 
> 



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