Errors for users copying my ubuntu 12.04 LibreOffice3 files from my website to their MS Word

[Nils Kassube]

Patrick Asselman wrote:
> On 2014-03-04 16:38, David Fletcher wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:09 -0500, Don Parsons wrote:
> >>      Is there a way to avoid getting these warnings and so alarming
> >> 
> >> the
> >> Windows users of my web site?
> > 
> > Yes. Add a link to your web site to download Libre Office. It's been
> > the
> > accepted practice for many years to link to the Adobe pdf reader so
> > linking to a properly working free office suite should present no
> > problems.
> 
> According to that logic, you would link a Windows install to a .exe
> file too? Or maybe just a virtual machine with Windoze pre-installed?

No, that would be a link to the Microsoft store because you can't 
legally download Windows or a VM with Windows preinstalled.

> I think it would be best to limit stuff like that to applications of
> limited size and limited user impact ;-)

Libreoffice is an application of limited size - it is only slightly :) 
bigger than Adobe reader.


Nils