Re: What would most aid WINE development?

[David Lee Lambert]

[e-mail] wrote:
> The only real barrier that remains is for sufficient number of 
> businesses  and administrations to adopt a strategy where it is no 
> longer acceptable  to publish and transmit documents in a format that 
> forces the recipient to  have the lastest version of M$ office to read 
> and modify a document.

I used to be unable to read Office 2000 and later files with a certain 
non-Microsoft Windows word processor and with StarOffice,  but for as 
long as I've been using it regularly,  OpenOffice has never had a 
problem with any Word document I've been exposed to (and a lot of 
professors at my school use Word sometimes).  Perhaps that barrier is 
pretty flimsy too?