Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Boaz Rymland]

Ori,
While technically you might be correct - I'll take your word for it - this
argument is hardly a relevant or helping to convince her. If I say that to
her, in the best case she'll reply "what the hell are you talking about
Boaz? The system currently works, everyone are getting their weekly
schedule and nobody is complaining but you".
In the worst case, she'll think the same but wont say it. At that time, I'm
more or less done with her as far as she is concerned and it will be much
harder to further talk to her about such issues.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il> wrote:

> Another point to notice is that there is no such format as MS word format.
> Each version has a different format and sometimes one can not open the
> documents that was sent to him in this format.
> I have seen many cases where OpenOffice opened files that people who had a
> version of MS-word could not open.
>
> --
> Ori Idan
>
>
> 2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland <boaz.rymland at gmail.com>
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the
>> formats of documents the school spreads around routinely, like the weekly
>> schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word format and I don't like it
>> as I cannot cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).
>>
>> Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the
>> years most of them - still I prefer having a refreshment of all the
>> arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF)
>> document formats.
>>
>> Any pointers/text will be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Boaz.
>>
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