From koffice-devel Fri Feb 22 04:00:59 2002 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 04:00:59 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Re: Question about your KPresenter's review X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=101437456123135 Relayed for Cathy again... Catherine Olanich Raymond : > On Thursday 21 February 2002 04:14 am, kudling@kde.org wrote: > > > > documents. Neither Eric nor I know much about Mac software. Neither > > > > of us knows whether there are any Mac programs that can edit Word > > > > documents, let alone would be able to troubleshoot Mac programs that > > > > claimed they could edit Word documents. > > > > One can assume that MS Office for Mac can read Word documents without > > trouble. > > Perhaps. But that's not the major problem. The major problem is finding > documents that will *edit* said Word document, and save it without screwing > up the formatting, so that I can send it back to the Windows system at my > office and be able to *continue* to edit it. > > My experience has taught me not to assume anything about programs until I > have tried them. > > Besides, I do use my computer for other things than word processing, which > makes it important for someone in our household to be able to do > troubleshooting. Neither Eric nor I have Mac experience. > > And in any event, if I were to decide that my best alternative to Windows was > a Mac, that would leave Linux with one fewer adherent... Surely this is not > an outcome anyone on the KDE team welcomes? :-) > > > > > -- > Cathy Raymond > > "The meeting of personalities is like the contact of chemical substances; > if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung -- Eric S. Raymond _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel