Proprietary file format lock in

Posted by Libervis on Sep 3, 2006 6:00 PM EDT
Libervis.com; By Iestyn Pryce
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This I feel is the greatest problem for people, especially academics when wanting to switch to GNU/Linux. Many people in my family work at universities in the UK. These people would happily switch to GNU/Linux tomorrow if it could run their .doc and other proprietary file formats properly.

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