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You are confusing applications with formats ...
In the first place, part of receiving a paycheck is the fact that you are required to do things you may not like to do. Any company that allowed its employees to use whatever application they individually chose would be headed toward chaos and business failure. But this issue is not even about applications, its about formats. They are two completely different issues. And every Office Suite EXCEPT Microsoft's has announced support for ODF. Microsoft made their own decision NOT to embrace ODF and thus exposed themselves to be singled out for scorn. They made their own nest. If they would just adopt ODF like every other vendor, they would not be having this problem.
Posted by: George Mitchell   Posted on: 02/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Let the lobbying begin  say_what | 02/07/07
This is great news for taxpayers. MS will be forced to support ODF and  DonnieBoy | 02/07/07
Youseem to be pretty strong on forcing people to do things  Confused by religion | 02/07/07
Better for a customer to force a vendor  Michael Kelly | 02/07/07
Uh, Milly?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/07/07
No, I am for choice where choice is appropriate  Confused by religion | 02/07/07
Milly, I see nothing wrong with his original post ...  George Mitchell | 02/07/07
Don't worry about DB milly  John Zern | 02/07/07
So what's your beef?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/08/07
Choose to work someplace  Boot_Agnostic | 02/08/07
"Forcing" people to use specific applications is the way its done ...  George Mitchell | 02/07/07
Hypocrisy anyone? Yes please.  seosamh_z | 02/07/07
For some, not all, it's a argument of preferred hatreds  Boot_Agnostic | 02/08/07
Actually  DemonX | 02/08/07
Just more hypocricy ...  George Mitchell | 02/08/07
So all those Corel and Lotus 123  Confused by religion | 02/07/07
Not true  DemonX | 02/08/07
Reality check  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/08/07
You are confusing applications with formats ...  George Mitchell | 02/08/07
Sounds like Sun will supply a plugin, and MS is working on a vertsion of  DonnieBoy | 02/08/07
On the contrary, by using an open standard, the states will be free to pick  DonnieBoy | 02/08/07
The biggest thing here is that governents and large corporations can use  DonnieBoy | 02/08/07
Don't hold your breaths  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/07/07
Clarification  Richard Flude | 02/07/07
Message has been deleted.  mcoulange | 02/07/07
Hey don't forget those old Corel and Lotus docs  Boot_Agnostic | 02/08/07
I'm just glad their exercising their ability to choose  Boot_Agnostic | 02/09/07

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