Comments for How do I share a copy of an application with a friend?

Comment from Ian on 2008-03-09

2008-03-09T17:38:45Z

Yes you can download Openoffice suite
as this is open source software which is free on the internet for all here is the link
http://www.openoffice.org/

good luck

bye for now

ian

keep smiling
:)
Be Happy

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Comment from Rod Mitchell on 2008-03-09

2008-03-09T12:20:29Z

I have read the article and maybe don't understand it all. I just wanted to add a small comment/question following a recent job my friendly computer shop did for me. My old laptop had a Microsoft office package when it was purchased. Recent problems led me to accept advice and move to the free Openoffice suite. The man in the shop had this on his USB memory stick and loaded it in a couple of minutes from this. As no payment for use is required, I presume there is no violation of copyright terms. I was considering putting the openoffice software on my newer computer and wondered if that was possible and legal?

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Comment from Hugh E Torrance on 2008-03-08

2008-03-08T10:45:51Z

I recently had a 16MB Antioch 1710 old time radio file (Marco Polo) refused,so I split the file using shell toys and sent it to my brother, no problem, in two parts with the reassembler (45KB),I had to send the reassembler to his Yahoo account as Google dos,nt accept .exe files.

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Comment from Simon Brew on 2008-03-08

2008-03-08T10:37:11Z

One small extra point specifially about Microsoft Office - you can download free VIEWERS for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio and maybe a few others from the Microsoft website. This will be perfectly adequate if your friends only need to READ/VIEW the files you send them, and not edit them.

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2008-03-06

2008-03-06T21:11:52Z

Worth noting that e-mail is still text based. To send binary items (applications, videos, pictures), they have to be encoded into a text stream that's embedded into the e-mail. This generally adds 40-60% to their size. So an e-mail containing a 100k photo will generally be 150k in size.

Then on the recipient's side, their e-mail program separates out that huge chunk of text and decodes it back into its original binary format. This is HUGELY inefficient and wasteful, but for smaller files it's not that big a deal.

Additionally, to prevent getting clogged, a lot of mail servers will toss out or cut off any e-mail that's bigger than a certain size. This can range from as small as 1 or 2 megabytes to as high as 50 or 100 megabytes, but it's rare that a mail server has no upper limit.

Many of the services that promise to let you e-mail big files actually have you upload it in a binary format to their servers, then give you a link you can send to someone to let them download the file.

And to second Leo, I've been using Open Office for years. It's gotten progressively more compatible with even the more esoteric features in Microsoft Office and has most of the basics locked down very nicely.

I use Microsoft Office at work and Open Office at home and haven't run into any major conflicts or mental disconnects in quite a long time.

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