complex answers are good, but this is also very simple
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| tuxchick Oct 31, 2005 8:18 AM EDT |
And we all know the short version- "open document standards mean Microsoft in included too. Microsoft is not excluded by the adoption of open standards. Therefore they are big lying crybabies who need to be spanked. A lot." |
| PaulFerris Oct 31, 2005 8:29 AM EDT |
That's a general statement that could apply to just about all of their infractions for the past 2 decades. Good work. |
| mvermeer Oct 31, 2005 10:24 AM EDT |
If only people writing this kind of tedious but necessary stuff could bill for their time. |
| AnonymousCoward Oct 31, 2005 3:09 PM EDT |
Here's another simple reason for supporting MA's choice: http://leonbrooks.blogspot.com/2005/10/real-reason-for-massa... It's cheating a bit, because the document is full of images (which MS-Word has a nasty habit of exploding to uncompressed bitmaps), but nevertheless OOo documents are typically much smaller than MSO, which would make a big difference to storage and backup costs and performance. |
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