[CoLoCo] Promoting Open Office

[David Overcash]

3 Cheers for Kevin!

Hip hip HOOORAY!
Hip hip HOOORAY!
Hip hip HOOORAY!

But seriously, situations like that are going to be the BEST way to let
people know that proprietary formats should not bind them to a specific
software package, let alone eternally paying to upgrade that package.

-David

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:

> Funny you should write this now...
>
> Just this morning, I had an incident that opened an eye, time will tell if
> it had the desired effect.  Our corporate office (in Japan) sent us a word
> document with a .docx extension.  The CEO was pissed that they sent a
> document in a format we could not read.  Being the only full time Linux
> user, I was the only one that could read it, since our office's standard is
> Office 2k3.  So, I reformat the document for the entire rest of the office.
>
> When the boss asked how come I could read it when none of the Windows users
> could, I proudly proclaimed that "being a Linux user makes it much more cost
> effective to keep my system up to date, so I have the most recent software,
> and the most recent version of Open Office has no problem reading DOCX
> files."
>
> quietly lmao
>
> Kevin Fries
> Senior Linux Engineer
> Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
> A division of Japan Communications Inc
> (303) 708-9228 x326
> ________________________________________
> From: ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [
> ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jim Hutchinson [
> jim at ubuntu-rocks.org]
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:26 PM
> To: coloco-list
> Subject: [CoLoCo] Promoting Open Office
>
> Okay, maybe a bit of shameless self-promotion but I think the more we push
> Open Office as a MS replacement (and for many people it can be) the more
> likely others are to start using a variety of FOSS. Anyway, I wrote a pair
> of posts on the topic so if you didn't see them please let me know what you
> think.
>
> http://ubuntukids.org/blog/?p=148
> http://ubuntukids.org/blog/?p=152
>
> I'm particularly interested to know if anyone would be interested in
> helping to put some ads in local newspapers.
>
> Thanks.
>
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