[H-GEN] Software Freedom Day (new thread)

[Tony Bilbrough]

G'day All,
I must say that I tend to admire the acerbic thrust that Greg Black adds 
to the sometimes weighty bundiage in our list ......... but

I use OO as my word processor, so I too would like to know what 
alternative writing programme he recommends :-]
In the past 4 years I have not found a situation in word processing, 
where school.doc did not work with OO set to save it in rtf.
Or the return path from MS, for that matter.

And Please..........
Lets not wander into arcane stuff like ed, vi, xedit [or GNU's nano, 
heaven forbid], that the binary elite have teethed on.
I really loved the last flame war, but remember this............

On this particular day, we are trying to win friends to an alternative 
operating system for computers.
This is particularly difficult to achieve, with a pubic that finds MS 
comparitively easy to use, even if it is expensive.

We need to exhibit easy to use, and similar Linux programmes.
Much as I admire it, grandstanding geek here is really out of order, on 
this particular occasion.

cheers Tony

David Duffy wrote:

>
>
> Greg Black wrote:
>
>> I must say that I am very uncomfortable whenever I see OO
>> evangelism.  -- especially if they care about their documents.
>>  
>>
>
> We use OO fairly frequently. Spreadsheets are easy enough to produce 
> with it.
> I can produce nice bulleted instruction pages for products, do quotes 
> that look
> quite nice, etc. I've never used MS Office as I don't want to pay that 
> much.
>
> Greg, what do you use? I'm interested in what others use for the type 
> of work
> that OO and MS Office are designed for. I mean I use Ultra Edit for 
> most of
> my programming and html/php writing needs as it suits the job. I use 
> OO for
> all of the fancier text and spreadsheet type jobs. Horses for courses.
> David...
>

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