Re: (TFT) Guns in TFT - A big expansion.

[Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>]

I have no idea what you are saying here.  


I was in a proprietary format, word perfect.  When it died, I
had a massive amount of work to convert to *.doc files.

Then M$ decided to change its format, and suddenly my
copy of word could not open up M$ documents which 
people were sending to me.  I had enough and converted
my files to open office.

And the problems have stopped.

*.odt is the standard open format.  ANYONE can write their
programs to use it.  There are no secrets or hidden kickers.

Furthermore it is not a complicated format.  It is easy to write
programs to open it.  And if people have decided to use a
program where the programmers are so lazy and so 
incompetent, that their program can't understand it, you can
download many free programs that are competent to open 
this format.


Anyway, I am sticking to open software from now on.  If you
want me to change, you are whistling in the wind.

Rick


On 2016-06-16, at 3:33 PM, Jeffrey Vandine wrote:

> Yep, by all means.  Let's ignore things and keep on keeping on. 
> 
> 
> 
>      From: Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>
> To: tft@brainiac.com 
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 3:13 PM
> Subject: Re: (TFT) Guns in TFT - A big expansion.
> 
> Hi all.
> Not true, all of my files are in open format documents.  Saving
> some in *.doc and some in *.docx and some in *.odt would
> be a pain in the ass.
> 
> Further, I'm fed up with documents written in word perfect 
> having to be converted to *.doc and then M$ decides it wants
> to change things so I have to change everything to *.docx
> which my old programs do not know how to open.  I am not
> wealthy and see no reason to update a program which is 
> working perfectly with an expensive one which I don't need.  
> 
> Finally, the *.odt is the open standard.  What sort of lame program 
> can not open an open standard?
> 
> Rick
> 
> 

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