Posted on 12/23/2009 2:45:21 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Ping.
eve = even.
Ouch!
They will have try to get a workaround so that they can get a little leverage in how much that they will have to pay i4i to not have to use it.
This hearkens back to the Microsoft vs. Stacker DOS 4.2 case, where MS had to pull a version of DOS and remove the stolen compression software.
If i4i does not get purchased, or calls MS’ bluff, I would advise those who use Word to turn off “automatic updates” for the time being.
Sorry that would be OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org
I don’t use MS Word. But I have to have it so I can reformat documents and send them to people who do use it.
This could be a real problem for people who want to buy a new computer with prepackaged software.
This is actually pretty humdrum. When I worked at Microsoft this kind of thing came up constantly. Basically, there are only so many reasonable ways to do things in software and so most every software developer is inadvertently infringing on others’ patents and vice versa. Typically, these issues are resolved with trades, i.e. Microsoft would trade a license to one of it’s thousands of patents in order to use the small company’s. Every once in a while they have to code around one. There’s always a way. It’s a pain, but not that unusual.
BFLR
My wife has used OpenOffice for several months. It is a terrible piece of software. It crashes when saving documents frequently leaving the documents corrupted and not able to open. I have heard many brag about OpenOffice but my experience has been terrible.
MSFT’s Wordpad does everything I need, sans Word’s bloat.
OpenOffice is awesome, it even gives me the capability to convert Excel Spreadsheets to PDF, I searched all over for a way to do this, and OpenOffice was the only way I could find, that was free.
My wife has used OpenOffice for several months. It is a terrible piece of software. It crashes when saving documents frequently leaving the documents corrupted and not able to open. I have heard many brag about OpenOffice but my experience has been terrible.
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I disagree.
1) Never lost a document.
2) Never crashed.
Are you sure you've got the right version for your computer and operating system and that it was correctly installed? My own experience with Open Office and Ubuntu has been very good.
You OSS dorks can’t even get your kludgeware right.
And if it’s been more than about a week, there’s probably a new stable build available.
The automatic uppercasing of first words in the sentence and such automated nonsense drives me up the wall!
I have the updates download automatically, but only the ones I choose install.
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