[plug] Article: Klez and OpenOffice should both spur Linux use

[Jacqueline McNally]

You know all this stuff :) But I thought it was a good advocacy read to 
pass along.

[SOURCE: NewsForge BY: Robin Miller April 22, 2002]

"Our webmaster at linux.com and editors at linux.com email addresses are now 
getting close to 100 emails daily containing the latest Klez worm. Windows 
users worried about this latest infection need to know that it doesn't 
bother Linux computers at all. That's a darn good reason to drop Windows 
and take up Linux. Yes, when you switch to Linux you'll need to learn to 
use different software, but in return you'll become immune to all popular 
worms and viruses. And then there's OpenOffice."

"...was that Microsoft Office, which costs hundreds of dollars, couldn't 
open, read, modify or save OpenOffice files, while (free) OpenOffice did a 
fine job of opening, reading, changing, and saving Microsoft Office files.

"So which program is a better value: Microsoft Office or OpenOffice? "

"Meanwhile, Windows viruses keep coming, one after another, and the 
hardware power required to use the latest version of Windows continues to 
rise. Slowly, calmly, without any great fuss, we are moving toward the day 
when ordinary, non-technical computer users ask friends, "Why are you using 
Windows instead of Linux?" instead of today's more common, "Why do you use 
Linux instead of Windows?" "

"On the office software front, it gets old, this constant need to resave 
work in .doc format instead of just shooting it off as .sxw. Even committed 
Microsoft- lovers should realize that if I ask them to install free 
OpenOffice in the name of collaboration, it's much more reasonable than 
asking me to spend hundreds of dollars on Windows and Microsoft Office to 
achieve the same goal."

From: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/04/21/149237.shtml?tid=19

All the best
Jacqueline
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/users/zenryaku/

Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
(www.openoffice.org)

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