Re: [MLUG] a good time to dump Windows?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 7. People will also generally find back doors to a requirement to use an 
> unfamiliar program if there are any. I have seen this quite a bit in 
> electronic instrumentation class, where the reports had to be submitted in 
> PDF or Open Document format (or I suppose ASCII text would have worked, so 
> would have standard HTML.) The most common trick was to go to the computer 
> lab and use the PDF export button in Word on computers with Adobe Acrobat. 
> Another one was to type the report up in Word and simply copy-and-paste into 
> OpenOffice or into an online AJAX word processor that supports ODF, such as 
> Writely. Microsoft is supposed to be making a stand-alone Office <-> ODF 
> converter that does not actually integrate into MS Office applications, so it 
> would enable the use of ODF documents without making them easily available to 
> be saved into but allows for the transfer of them if you have to deal with 
> them. Call it the "Massachusetts Workaround."
>   

Actually it's the ODF making the plugins to allow M$ Office to support 
ODF formats. Microsoft has been fighting that tooth and nail as somehow 
being unfair competition or some such bullshit.

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