[plug] Need Help convincing Dad he doesn't need M$ Office 03

[Shayne O'Neill]

Threaten to refer to him as "mr papa" or "daddyo" from now on if he
doesnt.

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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Chris Caston wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:08, Tim White wrote:
> ;snip
> > What I am look for from this list are 2 things:
> > 1) Arguments to convince him to stay (Probably with an upgrade to 1.1.1)
>
> The best way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Now if your
> dad is a reasonable kind of guy you can come to an agreement. Is there
> something that he wants you to do or try that you don't?
>
> Perhaps you can tell him about how open source software can help
> countries (Australia included) to cut their reliance on the United
> States and decrease their foreign debt. And how allowing people to
> access the source code allows news developers to gain skills.
>
> To show how strongly you feel about this for each month that he is using
> OpenOffice you will:
>
> * Wash and vacuum all the floors
> * Tidy up the kitchen
> * Clean the bathrooom
> * Do the gutters
> * Mow the lawn
>
> You may only need to keep it up for a couple of months then you can
> bring migrating Linux into the equation.
>
> > 2) Some tips on how to easily update 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 on both Win and Linux
> > Thanks
> Under Windows I just uninstalled the old ver and installed the new one
> but this was going from 1 to 1.1 so I'm not sure.
>
> With Debian can just apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade
>
> > Tim
> > p.s. If you have tips on convincing him that Office 03 is really bad then
> > that would be cool as well (i.e. how seriously flawed it is)
> >
> > weirdo AT tigris DOT org (MSN Enabled) | ICQ# 255176389 | Riverton, Perth, WA
> >
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