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Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by kiloaper on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @01:18PM (#3378461)
I completely agree. I have documents I wrote in the late 1990s I can no longer open easily. As an example of how quickly technology can change this is a perfect example of digital obsolence (storage medium, not software): https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/BBC_Domesday_...
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Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by webreac on Thursday December 22, 2011 @07:31AM (#3381325)
OpenOffice is far better than recent Microsoft office for opening old Word documents.
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