Re: [school-discuss] News: OpenOffice in LA Times

[Simon Scott <sscott@iinet.net.au>]

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 5:50 am, you wrote:
> Yeah,
>
> No mention of an open specification XML file format for interoperability
> with any other office package either.

I dont think Ma or Pa Kettle would really care, do you? :)

>
> - cameron
>
> > Too bad they say "emulates" :(

Its dumbed down for the masses, but the effect is the same - the only words 
they'll see are 'MS Office' and 'free' :)

> >
> > On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 14:18, Alan Chen wrote:
> >> I noticed this article in the Business section of the LA Times today:
> >>
> >> "OpenOffice Emulates MS Office--and It's Free", LA Times, Aug 05,
> >> Business http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-techgear5aug05.story
> >>
> >> It's nice to see recognition of Open Source in more and more
> >> mainstream places.
> >>
> >> - alan
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alan Chen
> >> Digikata LLC
> >> http://digikata.com