Re: English versus German

On Jul 6, 1:54 am, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:09:09 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:b0136843-d5ae-4b0d-87b2-1f900771b768@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in sci.lang:

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.

He falsely claimed that Word documents are not forward- and backward-
compatible and you "have to" upgrade every couple of years to be able
to use old or new files.

The new format introduced in Word2007 (.docx) uses much less disk
space than the old (.doc) format, but Word2007 can with no problem
save in the old format (it can even be set as the default format), and
users of the earlier versions can easily download a free
"Compatibility Pack" that enables them to read .docx files and
includes all the new fonts.
.

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