anti-word

[Charles Crawford]

Easy, they see a text file in the response.
-- Charlie.
At 11:14 AM 1/13/02 -0600, you 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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