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Story: The problems with open source

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"How many documents need to be reformatted to pay for a licence of Microsoft Office? How much embarrassment will it cause to have your documents arrive at a customer in a poorly formatted state?"

Interesting questions and perhaps a bit loaded as well. Is Mr. Bogue moonlighting for Microsoft?

One might also ask, "Since when is open source software worse at converting documents than commercial software?". I seem to recall that converting other formats to MS Office was not exactly a piece of cake.

Another question worth asking is, "How does less than 100% compatibility automatically translate to 'poorly formatted'?".

Other questions worth asking include, "How much data loss due to macro viruses, worms, etc. does it take to bankrupt your company? and "'How embarrassing will it be when your PC is found to be serving porn to the masses, courtesy of the vulnerability du jour in XP, Internet Explorer, Word, or Outlook?".

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