Errors for users copying my ubuntu 12.04 LibreOffice3 files from my website to their MS Word

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 07 March 2014 06:28:58 Nils Kassube did opine:

> Patrick Asselman wrote:
> > On 2014-03-04 16:38, David Fletcher wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:09 -0500, Don Parsons wrote:
> > >>      Is there a way to avoid getting these warnings and so alarming
> > >> 
> > >> the
> > >> Windows users of my web site?
> > > 
> > > Yes. Add a link to your web site to download Libre Office. It's been
> > > the
> > > accepted practice for many years to link to the Adobe pdf reader so
> > > linking to a properly working free office suite should present no
> > > problems.
> > 
> > According to that logic, you would link a Windows install to a .exe
> > file too? Or maybe just a virtual machine with Windoze pre-installed?
> 
> No, that would be a link to the Microsoft store because you can't
> legally download Windows or a VM with Windows preinstalled.
> 
> > I think it would be best to limit stuff like that to applications of
> > limited size and limited user impact ;-)
> 
> Libreoffice is an application of limited size - it is only slightly :)
> bigger than Adobe reader.
> 
> 
> Nils

The last time I pulled a fresh copy, it was north of 100 megs, many times 
the size of the adobe reader.

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