My real world experience with this very thing:
I was the IT guy at a company that had a LOT of outside sales reps. on laptops. On occasion I would get the word from the sales managers that I needed to buy and prepare new laptops for sales reps that had just been hired on. I would also sometimes have a deadline of just a few days to have these laptops all prepared. Needless to say, there were times when I didn't yet get approval from my boss to purchase more Office licenses. So, I installed Open Office on several of these new sales reps laptops and set the default file formats to the typical MS ones. I also renamed the icons for launching the applications to the MS equivalent.
The end result was that I had older sales reps asking me why the 'new guy' got the new version of Office and he was stuck on the 'old' version. These sales reps happily used Open Office sometimes for months at a time and simply thought that they had the new '2008' version or something. For the simple tasks they performed Open Office worked perfectly.
Then, a big problem arose. One of the 'new' sales reps discovered that his Office was a 'counterfeit cheapo free program'. He then proceeded to tell all of the other Open Office sales reps that they too had a 'fake' MS Office. Once word of this spread the whiny brat sales reps all demanded that they have the 'real' Office. The company president....being ignorant as well also demanded that I spend $20K of the IT department budget to now buy Office licenses for the whiny, crybaby sales reps. Mind you, they had been unwittingly using Open Office for MONTHS with no complaints and in some cases thought they were special because they had the 'new' version of Office.
For most office people, Open Office would work perfectly. Your biggest hurdle is in telling the whiners to shut up and use what's given to them.....or you could tell them it's the '2009' version and they will happily use Open Office without a complaint.
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My real world experience with this very thing: I was the IT guy at a company that had a LOT of outside sales reps. on laptops. On occasion I would get the word from the sales managers that I needed to buy and prepare new laptops for sales reps that had just been hired on. I would also sometimes have a deadline of just a few days to have these laptops all prepared. Needless to say, there were times when I didn't yet get approval from my boss to purchase more Office licenses. So, I installed Open Office on several of these new sales reps laptops and set the default file formats to the typical MS ones. I also renamed the icons for launching the applications to the MS equivalent. The end result was that I had older sales reps asking me why the 'new guy' got the new version of Office and he was stuck on the 'old' version. These sales reps happily used Open Office sometimes for months at a time and simply thought that they had the new '2008' version or something. For the simple tasks they performed Open Office worked perfectly. Then, a big problem arose. One of the 'new' sales reps discovered that his Office was a 'counterfeit cheapo free program'. He then proceeded to tell all of the other Open Office sales reps that they too had a 'fake' MS Office. Once word of this spread the whiny brat sales reps all demanded that they have the 'real' Office. The company president....being ignorant as well also demanded that I spend $20K of the IT department budget to now buy Office licenses for the whiny, crybaby sales reps. Mind you, they had been unwittingly using Open Office for MONTHS with no complaints and in some cases thought they were special because they had the 'new' version of Office. For most office people, Open Office would work perfectly. Your biggest hurdle is in telling the whiners to shut up and use what's given to them.....or you could tell them it's the '2009' version and they will happily use Open Office without a complaint.
Err, no. 8KCAB Decathalons have a Lyc AEIO-360-H1B engine. Fuel injected, no carb icing.
Nope, the one I fly has an AEIO-320-E1B....you're thinking of the Super Decathlon, also an 8KCAB. But yeah, no carb icing with fuel injection.