Thinkfree Office on Linux

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 8 19:07:16 UTC 2004


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Paul King wrote:

> Lloyd D Budd sez:
>>
>> Are there any open source word processors that cannot output (as
>> compatible) MS Office Docs?  Save as RTF is prolly the best option
>> anyway .
>>
>
> I guess there are, but my impression is that there are degrees of compatability
> once you do need to read it into an MS application. Or, you have to read a .doc
> or .rtf which someone else sent you in one of these alternative applications.
> The claim with ThinkFree is that it is compatible to the point of also using
> the same file extensions. That is something that isn't the default under SO or
> others.

Fwiw, M$ has compatibility problems between versions. How do you expect 
others to do better ?!

Peter
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