Re: English versus German

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:09:09 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
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On Jul 5, 5:32 pm, Adam Funk <a24...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2009-07-05, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

[...]

Then you have to tell the person who sent you the .doc
document that you are out of step with most of the
world and are unable to read documents in .doc format,
please resave it in .rtf.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

I don't know who Richard M. Stallman may be, but since he
lies about Word in his first paragraph, I didn't bother
reading the rest of it.

He does not. Word attachments *are* annoying, and they *do*
impede people from switching to free software. They are
tolerable *only* because OO.o deals with them reasonably
well.

Brian
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