[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

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Michael B. Trausch                                      fd0man at gmail.com
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