Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[Howard Gibson]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:48:11 -0500
Maureen Thornton <maureen-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Okay, this I have heard a number of times and is why I have joined Colin
> and Jon to try to educate the common mass.  Usually I just lurk on this
> sight and learn as much as I can but this touches me where it hurts.
> 
> I am not a programmer nor a computer whizz  or guru, I am an Executive
> Assistant who normally has an IT dept. taking care of problems.  This
> said, I had Linux put on a machine and handed to me to try by a
> programmer (those of you who know me will guess who!)  I hated and loved
> it!  Loved it for the idea of a free system for all those who could not
> and should not have to pay the Microsoft shit.  Hated it 'cos you had to
> know too much about computers and realized where Microsoft had jumped
> way ahead with their thinking.

   A friend of mine has installed Fedora on his computer.  His girlfriend has discovered that Open Office is not compatible with Microsoft Office.

   The actual problem is that her documents are formatted with page breaks, and that Open Office uses a font with different line spacing that Microsoft Word uses.  If she had learned to use Microsoft Word's stylesheet, everything would work fine.  The worst case is that she would have to update a table of contents.

   This is a training and education issue, and perhaps a strong case for WordPerfect, which actually behaves the way most people assume a word processor behaves.

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