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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 09:16:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4
From: Wolf Halton <wolf.halton@gmail.com>
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Cc: gavin@16degrees.com.au
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When the US gov went to word from wordperfect sometime around 1994, pretty
much everybody who interacted with the government went to MS Office within
a year or so.
I expect we will see a similar effect from Brazil and other governments
moving to OFF.
When I installed 3.4 on windows 7 and on Ubuntu Linux,  I was given an
option to allow or not allow OO to open MS formats by default.  The problem
may be that the default state of the check-boxes is for the file
association to be with OO.
Recently my copy of MS Office 2010 stole back the associations, so I had to
fix them to point back to OO3.4. Thus I can appreciate the feelings of the
original post.

Wolf

PS Sorry for the top-post. Writing this from my phone.

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On Jun 2, 2012 8:58 AM, "Paulo de Souza Lima" <paulo.s.lima@varekai.org>
wrote:

> 2012/6/2 Gavin McDonald <gavin@16degrees.com.au>
>
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Graham Wright [mailto:gwright2803@hotmail.es]
> > > Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2012 2:01 PM
> > > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I often wonder why somebody that has Microsoft Office would have the
> > > need to install Open Office anyway!
> > > Isn't Open Office mainly for those people who cannot afford, or who are
> > > unwilling to pay for Microsoft Office?
> >
> > Perhaps to evaluate it , compare etc, so that next time renewal/upgrade
> of
> > MS
> > Office comes long, they might decide the free OOo is good enough instead.
> > One can't decide which is best without trying.
> >
> > Also, on this 'dev' list, you will find many (such as me) with both for
> > testing purposes.
> > (This apparent error obviously slipped the net)
> >
> > Gav...
> >
> >
> Hi.
>
> That's not the case for this issue, but many governments (Brasil is the
> best example I can giveyou) are choosing ODF as the standard format for
> documents. Ms Windows 2007 and below aren 't able to open ODF files. That's
> one reason why many people have another office suite installed in their
> computers.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Paulo de Souza Lima
> http://almalivre.wordpress.com
> Curitiba - PR
> Linux User #432358
> Ubuntu User #28729
>

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