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[William Park]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:35:51PM -0400, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 10:59, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> > Maybe we should have pointed out that non-commercial Linux software
> > is mostly distributed in rpm or deb format and installed by way of
> > package managers and therefore actually simpler than installing on
> > Windows.  We could have, by way of contrast, demonstrated installing
> > AbiWord or OpenOffice (from a local source) with Synaptic.
> 
> The question still remains, why would anyone want to install MS
> Office?  ;-)

Because it works the way "Office program" is expected to work.  It is
the ORIGINAL office product, and everybody wants to copy it.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
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