On Friday 11 October 2002 09:09, Andreas Tille wrote:
While I'm completely share your opinion in this field I have to face the situation that exactly those target users in mind have no idea that there is any other program than Excel and they are not allowed to change their installation themselves even if I would teach them. I hope that this will change in the future ...
Ah! They probably also don't know what Mozilla is. You can use my Zope-stuff to upgrade theirs skills: http://www.zope.org/Members/Bolid/zfriday ;-) But in my company, where nobody knew (before I came) what OO is, now it is cool tool for various purposes. Since M$ enforses folks use theirs suxxy unsecure products the one of the solutions is to GENTLY enforce users to use OO in this case. How? Easy: provide a StarCalc document as main format with various functions (you can even put some small description, screenshot whatever) and a CSV as additional format. Never, ever expect hackers to be able to read closed proprietary document formats like Microsoft Word. Most hackers react to these about as well as you would to having a pile of steaming pig manure dumped on your doorstep. -- ESR (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) -- Regards, Bogdan If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?