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[James Sumners]

I prefer OpenOffice to Office as well. But when you save a document as
a Word document from within Writer, formatting doesn't always hold
true. When it comes to my grades, I don't try and force the issue.
Office works. I'm sure your son has to print everything he writes so
he can turn in a hard copy. That isn't always the case at the
university level. Sometimes you have to submit your work
electronically, and the professor will be using Office to view it.

Office X, the version CSU has a site license for, is quite bad. I can
only imagine the horror that an older version would be.

On 9/28/07, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 13:22 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > Going slightly off-topic, I've taken to liking OS X for every day
> > computing. When I decided to give OS X a try, by buying a Powerbook
> > with a student loan, I had a basic requirement. The laptop needs to
> > "just work." I don't want to fool with suspend2 (and it doesn't work
> > well if my Arch Linux machine is any indication), extremely limited
> > software selection, et al. When I say limited software selection, I
> > mean stuff like Office and education software.
> Admittedly, it's the older Mac Office 03 but my son vastly prefers to
> use OpenOffice vs Office on the Mac for his (high)school work. Our OSX
> Powerbook gets used less and less for everyday computing by the two kids
> in the house.
>
> regards,
> William
> (mac user since OS 6.0.something)
> > Sure, a majority of my
> > classes use Maple and Matlab, which have Linux ports, but I do need
> > Office and other such things from time to time. Fooling with wine, or
> > some derivative, doesn't fall into the "just works" category.
> >
> > With OS X I have a cohesive desktop environment on top of a standard
> > Unix base. It really is the best of both worlds, in my opinion.
> <snip>
>
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