OT: Microsoft crazy academic deal

[Eric Smith]

Eric J Korpela wrote:
 >> Funny, but OpenOffice is still free.

tonym wrote:
> Funny, but it's still not fully Office 2007 compatible.

Funny, but that's one of OpenOffice's best features.  It does the stuff 
I need, without nearly as much useless bloat as MS Office 2007.  I deal 
with Word and Excel documents routinely, and although I occasionally run 
into one that uses an exotic feature not in OpenOffice, it's never been 
anything that prevented me from doing what I need with the document.