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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Re: Question about your KPresenter's review
From:       "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus ! com>
Date:       2002-02-22 4:00:59
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Relayed for Cathy again...

Catherine Olanich Raymond <cathy@thyrsus.com>:
> 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 <cathy@thyrsus.com>
> 
> "The meeting of personalities is like the contact of chemical substances; 
> if there is any reaction, both are transformed."  Carl Jung

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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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