[NTLUG:Discuss] Looking for intermediate or advanced OpenOffice training
Alton R. Pouncey, II
alton at trainers-r-us.com
Sat Jul 12 16:31:56 CDT 2003
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 12:35, Steve Baker wrote:
> David wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:01:06PM -0500, Alton R. Pouncey, II wrote:
> >
> >>I was speaking with a gentleman last night who is building a law
> >>practice on open software. He's been using OpenOffice for about a year
> >
> >
> > I would love to chat with this person. I am a long-time UNIX and
> > Linux person. I persist in using OpenOffice in the middle of a
> > corporation that has over 50,000 copies of that _other_ office
> > package. I also happen to hold a law degree.
>
> I thought lawyers were the mainstay uses of WordPerfect - even
> under Windows...WordPerfect has a version for Linux.
I asked him about this because my understanding was that the word
processor of choice for legal documents was WordPerfect. His response
was that WordPerfect costs money so he didn't use it. I also think
WordPerfect is proprietary so even if it were free (as in beer), it
wouldn't fit his bill.
>
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Alton R. Pouncey, II
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