Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft Office files in the trunk

[Michael B. Trausch]

Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
>   
>  I disagree with this. I don't know how to use oo.o or variants, and I don't
>  intend on learning something I have no interest in. 
>  I'm currently putting together a presentation for the speeches I have coming
>  up on ReactOS. If a rule was put in place where we could only commit
>  OpenDocument files, I would simply not put it into the repository and would
>  instead share it with anyone who wanted it via email.
>  
>  This isn't because I'm being awkward, it's because I have no time or
>  interest to learn a new office suite .... and I certainly don't want to
>  install oo.o on my machine.
>  
>  I suppose it's this attitude which keeps MS Office up as a monopoly, which
>  now make me realise why they don't want to support OpenDocument.
>   
I don't know what "learning" there is.  You may have to find something
lurking a few items up or down in a menu; however, the things that it
can do over that of what Office can do, is pretty amazing.  It's
intuitive, and unless you're a heavy VBScript programmer, you wouldn't
be disappointed.

	- Mike

-- 
Michael B. Trausch                                      fd0man(a)gmail.com
AIM: MB Trausch                             Jabber:  mtrausch(a)jabber.com