proprietry docs was Re: [H-GEN] Sad day for Linux

[Mark Venz]

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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:56:07AM +1000, Trent WADDINGTON wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Paul Gearon wrote:
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> > The release of StarOffice made life on Linux suddenly a LOT better for me
==8<-- 
> StarOffice (or more precisely OpenOffice) has made my life a living hell.
> People feel absolutely no quarms about sending me xls and doc files
> anymore.  They insist that I start up OpenOffice to read/edit them and so
> every now and then I get to use the entire 96 meg on my computer + the 256
> meg swap to run a single application.

antiword takes care of *.doc files - send your replies back as text. :)

Mark

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