Because it's a 66Mb download, and because Andy, or indeed anybody else, is not free to run StarOffice for commercial (non-personal) use without paying a licence. The advent of a semi-free (sic) client for the proprietary .doc format does not legitimise it as an open standard. Cheers Si On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 03:28:43PM +0000, Andy Linton wrote:
It looks like stuff of a 'Microsoft centric nature' has slipped past. Please can we have this is a non proprietary format?
Since you are using linux and X, why not install star office and set that as the helper to .doc files?
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