[ale] MS Office new version

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 16:44:47 EDT 2008


No. Campus has a site license for Microsoft Office. The ability to
install it is a part of my tuition.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
>  > Yes, I could go through the trouble of figuring out the equation
>  > myself and typing it into the plot. That's just more time I would have
>  > to dedicate to less important homework. Excel automatically calculates
>  > the regression equation and puts it into the plot as a label. OOo 2.4
>  > will do the same[1], but I am using NeoOffice. It takes a little while
>  > for NeoOffice to reach feature parity with OOo. I use NeoOffice
>  > because it is much faster than OOo on the Mac; plus, it is integrated
>  > with the native Aqua environment.
>
>  So you had to purchase non-free software because the free software that
>  works well with a non-free OS is less capable than the free software for
>  a free OS?
>
>  I think I see the root of the problem. :-P
>
>  -Brian
>
>
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