[wplug] Word attachments (was: MISM mentor program)

[Benjamin G. Beige]

One thig even windows users can make PDF files even if they natively use 
say word, as simply as printing w/ a free product you can downlload from 
adobe... and I have to believe that there ar ea multitude of similar 
programs for Linux, I've never tried to find them though ;)






On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:23:08 -0500, Scott Kiesling <kiesling+ at pitt.edu> 
wrote:

> I agree, it doesn't have to be life. It may be as small as sending that
> email to someone, and it spreads. I had never really thought about it
> before today's discussion, but now I plan not to accept .doc documents.
> This means that I will be writing many, many people at the university
> (inlcuding deans), and telling them about open source options. Perhaps
> they will start to rethink the mega-licensing deal they seem to have
> with Microsoft.
>
> I also have had editors send me documents using the Word track changes
> option, which does not work in OpenOffice.org. I find this frustrating,
> but now I have an argument for telling them to send it in a different
> format.
>
> I will also be requiring students, who have the option in many cases of
> submitting things electronically, to use a publicly available format.
> This means future computer users at the rate of a few hundred a year
> will learn other ways to send their documents (and that other formats
> even exist). While this may not seem like a lot, they may also adopt
> this practice and send out similar emails and, well, you get the
> picture. Butterflies and hurricanes.
>
> One question: I believe it was on this list a while back that someone
> suggested that MSWord 6.0 was a more reliable standard than RTF, and it
> is essentially open now since most word processors have decoded it. do
> people agree?
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:25, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
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>> On Monday 10 February 2003 12:59, Russ Schneider wrote:
>> <snip>
>> > I'll have to Google Palladium and see what this is, but remember
>> > where you live.  In the US, the people with the most money win. > 
>> Microsoft (and others) can do any number of things to screw the rest
>> > of us. That's life. :)
>>
>> It's not a matter of the US. It's global. I'd like to stuff my head in 
>> the sand and say that it doesn't affect me, as a foreigner, but the 
>> truth is it does.
>>
>> And no, that's *not* life. With this kind of mentality the GNU project, 
>> Linux, the endless stream of Open Source software it inspired and the 
>> EFF would not even exist, and the world would soon be quite hard to live 
>> in.
>>
>> (Unless one assimilates. That's always been the easiest choice.)
>>
>> - -A
>>
>> PS: *Do* read about Palladium. Everyone should know what lies ahead, to 
>> be able to put things into perspective. Another keyword is TCPA.
>> - -- http://andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/pub_key.asc
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