[Gllug] We can put an end to Word attachments

[Gordon Joly]

Surely with StarOffice and OpenOfiice we should start to encourage 
Word attachments?!?!

Send them back with a not saying "Open, read, understood and edited 
under Linux with OpenOffice".

In the end, Linux will probably be ahead of Microsoft Word itself, 
which can suffer a lot with version changes (e.g. Word 6 documents 
opened with Word 97/2000 or whatever) catastrophically. I remember it 
being a big problem at the BBC. Departments had problem exchanging 
Word documents by email.

This is probably not true today, with the BBC's Desktop project 
applying in most offices (though the standardization across the 
country probably remains poor).

Also rumours of a lot of Linux in the back office at the BBC.

Gordo (BBCNC, BBC Multimedia Centre, BBC World Service Online, 1995-1998)

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