Re: [seul-edu] Re: MS offer

["Ed Sheridan" <esheridan@forestcity.k12.ia.us>]

> I think asking them whether it will open Word XP document will be
> more adequate (and earned) pain for them. ;>


Sad, but true. I'm sure they would be happy to sell a tranlsator upgrade to
their "free" software to allow Works to open Word and Excel files.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Shigorin" <mike@osdn.org.ua>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:54 AM
Subject: [seul-edu] Re: MS offer


> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:31:23PM -0500, Ed Sheridan wrote:
> > These sort of offers from M$ are our opportunity to push for
> > interoperability and open document standards. What good is "free"
software
> > for the school if the documents created in that software cannot be
> > accurately rendered by OpenOffice?
>
> I think asking them whether it will open Word XP document will be
> more adequate (and earned) pain for them. ;>
>
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