anti-word

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Sun Jan 13 11:06:47 EST 2002


On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Yes and if a word document is sent to you for your input and editing, I'm
> sure the original party would expect the thing to come back in Word format
> along with the built-in formatting, styles and such.  Some of this whole
> anti Word sounds arogant to me.


I rather think it arrogant to presume everyone wants and reads Word. I 
regard it as arrogant to presume we all pay tribute to Microsoft. I 
further regard it arrogant to treat a proprietary, non-consensus, file 
format as some kind of standard.





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