It was on, or about, Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:00:31 +0200, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Martin wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:28:07 +0100, William Poaster
wrote:

It was on, or about, Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:40:41 +0200, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Martin wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:18:51 +0100, William Poaster
wrote:

It was on, or about, Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:20:35 +0200, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Martin wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:56:53 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:19:59 GMT, Pam Moore

wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:08:20 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

Thanks to a lightening strike I have had to replace one of our
machines,
the
new one has "Vista" (I expect I will get used to it in time!)
The point of this posting is just to say that while much of my
old third party software has gone on without a murmur the same
was not true of my
very
expensive MS Office (2000) and I thought people may like to know
I have solved the problem by changing to "Open Office" which so
far seems completely compatible in both directions with ms
office and only costs
£6
!!!

Very useful info Charlie. We shall all have to face up to Vista
at some point, no doubt. Good luck!

Although I see websites trying to sell it, you may like to know
you can
download
Open Office free.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/

"OpenOffice.org is free software

* you may download OpenOffice.org completely free of any
licence fees * install it on as many PCs as you like * use it
for any purpose - private, educational, government and public
administration, commercial...
* pass on copies free of charge to family, friends, students,
employees,
etc."

You can download it from here
http://download.openoffice.org/

Now he tells me :~)
I am not grumbling it was very cheap really at £5.86

Ask for you money back. Whoever sold it to you had no right to sell
it.

It's perfectly legal.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/selling.html

Normally you are only charged for the cost of a CD, post & packing
etc.

In that case why is the price of a Windows version substantially more
than the price of a Mac version in UK?

Ask M$, they bumped the UK prices for Vista up. Anyone using Windows in
the UK is paying almost *twice* the amount than someone buying it in the
US. http://news.com.com/Petition+demands...+price+cuts+in
+U.K./2100-1016_3-6161710.html

I know of one corporate accountant who's challenged MS on this, & so far
they haven't answered him.

I paid EUR100 for a copy of SuSE Linux, somebody is posting that that
is free too.

I'm talking about Open Office for WinXP on a CD, nothing to do with MS
pricing policies AFAIK.

Ah, I see. Well you can still download OpenOffice for Windows for free.
But there's nothing to stop someone putting it on a CD & charging for it,
& if someone pays their price.....

If you want to download OpenSusE, a community driven version, it's free.
However the only support would be from newsgroups & forums.
http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version

If you buy a boxed version, you're buying the official Novell/SuSE
release, & probably would get some support when you register the
product. http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/

No, I bought it before Novell got their hands on it.

So you bought it from SuSE? This was before Novell released it into the
OSS community, & the only way you could get a copy was to buy
it....though some people copied what they'd bought, & sold copies on ebay.

I used SuSE Linux for 9 years, but changed to Kubuntu last year when
Novell signed a deal with MS.

I'm quite happy with Win XP.

Reading all the gripes on the SuSE newsgroup makes it look worse than
anything MS can throw at you.

SuSE Linux used to be *very* good when it was a German company, but went
downhill after Novell acquired it IMO (& some others). The last version I
had was SuSE 10.0, which had a lot of bugs. It's something which wouldn't
have happened under the original SuSE company IMO. Then Novell signed
with MS, & I decided to move on to another distribution.