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Wojtek
--- On Sun, 3/29/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] software question
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 11:46 AM
> A simple question, I hope, and pretty
> much the sole reason I am driven
> insane by Office 2007... is there any way I can get a
> readable and
> functional preview of an Office 2007 document? I've
> used PowerDesk - an
> update of the old Norton File Manager - forever and have
> always been able to
> read documents in the File Viewer... for grading papers
> this has been a real
> boon and time saver... I have to open 2007 docxs and it
> kills/wastes tons of
> time.
> -A
>
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:43 AM, John S Costello <joxn.costello at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org>
> wrote:
> > > On Mar 28, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry for the rant... but it was good to get that
> off my chest ;-). And I
> > > came here to find people to have lunch with me
> and Chris. I might have
> > just
> > > lost the Microsoft lovers!
> >
> > Not me! I was a Linux/Beowulf cluster partisan
> when I was a grad
> > student. I've got a Debian box and a Mac box at
> home. And I answered
> > questions for the GPL FAQ mailing list for years.
> >
> > But, I'm working on a team which is trying to
> solve some problems
> > that I think will never be solved by the Open Source
> community,
> > because they are 1) hard, 2) not sexy, 3) involve a
> lot of scut work,
> > and 4) benefit from the fact that MS owns the
> operating system and the
> > development tool stack and the collaboration layer on
> top of it.
> > There are times when being a monolith has its
> advantages. Plus, it's
> > in an area where *nix has a 95% market share, so the
> team I'm on can't
> > afford to blithely ignore customers' needs.
> Competition really does
> > focus the mind.
> >
> > -- John
> >
> > --
> > "The more I practice, the luckier I get." -- Ben
> Hogan
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