anti-word

[Charles Crawford]

Hello Amanda, Janina and other interested listers,

         Well, looks like the world of advocacy is impinging on planet 
Linux.  It is correct to point out that in the ideal there should not be a 
word processing standard imposed by a company, but as we all know, the 
sender of a word file getting a text file back might not see the world in 
the same way.  Don't you just hate it when that happens.  Smile.

         I guess my view is that if word users want to communicate with 
those who don't use word, then they have to adjust to the realities of 
other computer platforms.  Consumer choice still has it's place!

-- Charlie Crawford.



At 11:09 AM 01/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Amen! to that Janina!
>
>Amanda
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 11:06 AM
>Subject: Re: anti-word
>
>
> > 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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