anti-word

[Janina Sajka]

Gregory, I keep telling you this answer, but there's some part of it that 
you seem to still miss. What part is that?

They don't need to know a damm thing to retrieve either a text doc (no 
formatting), or an html doc (much formatting).

They need know nothing special in order to do that. Do you understand this 
yet?

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> And how do you expect them to know about the other platforms if all they know about their windows computer is how to turn it on and off?
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:17:03PM -0500, Charles Crawford wrote:
> > 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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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