XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com   
      
   k-nuttle wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:   
      
   > On 6/6/2011 8:58 AM, chrisv wrote:   
   >> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Flounder's stock-in-trade is trolling bullshit.  He's a pathological liar.   
   >>>   
   >>> OpenOffice is very good with MS Office formats through 2003.  It is only   
   >>> about 1/2-way there with MS's *.???x formats.   
   >>   
   >> The monopolists moving the target, to make it difficult for customers   
   >> to leave them, is a "good reason" to attack Free software, you know.   
   >>   
   >> It's "good" that some company seeks to lock *your* data into *their*   
   >> formats, so that you do *not* have the freedom to leave them for   
   >> another vendor who might be a better value for you.   
   >>   
   > Rather than chasing Microsoft, try Wordperfect X5 which will open all of   
   > the latest MSWord fromats,OpenOffice, and more than other 60 File Formats   
      
   Does it run on Linux?  (WINE or otherwise)   
      
   --   
   	So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark].   
   With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to   
   maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of   
   corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to   
   flop up onto the land and evolve.  Richard and I were inching toward   
   it, sort of crouched over, when all of a sudden it turned around and --   
   I can still remember the sensation I felt at that moment, primarily in   
   the armpit area -- headed right straight toward us.   
   	Many people would have panicked at this point.  But Richard and   
   I were not "many people."  We were experienced waders, and we kept our   
   heads.  We did exactly what the textbook says you should do when you're   
   unarmed and a shark that is nearly two feet long turns on you in water   
   up to your lower calves: We sprinted I would say 600 yards in the   
   opposite direction, using a sprinting style such that the bottoms of   
   our feet never once went below the surface of the water.  We ran all   
   the way to the far shore, and if we had been in a Warner Brothers   
   cartoon we would have run right INTO the beach, and you would have seen   
   these two mounds of sand racing across the island until they bonked   
   into trees and coconuts fell onto their heads.   
   		-- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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