On Thu, 2005-29-09 at 15:28 -0700, Craig White wrote: ...snip... > of course you are ignoring the fact that if you use Word and save the > file in a foreign format, you get the same type of warnings. > > I guess I don't see the distinction except that the warnings in OO only > come when you save files in .DOC format and in Word, when you don't save > in .DOC format. > Well said. The last time I updated my resume was at least 5 years ago. I believe it was in Word format, so I exported it and reformatted it in Applix which I no longer have, but fortunately I had the foresight to also save it in standard ascii text and RTF. It turns out we did not go public and I did not have to bid for my job, so it was never used. My point here is if I had only saved it in Applix I may have had to redo it from scratch. Lets just pretend that MSFT went bust, after being sued for mental pain and anguish by millions of people in a class action suite, and word was no longer available ; How would Massachusetts citizens gain access to state documents stored in word format that they needed when they had no way of running word anymore. ... PS: Would like to start a class action suite against MSFT for the mental pain and anguish they have suffered from the use their products. If you would then sign me up. ;^)
