anti-word

[Steve Holmes]

I agree; I was just thinking in terms of someone updating the document and
returning it in the same format as originally sent.  This could especially
be the case if say, several people might be sharing a document.  A common
format should be agreed upon.  Yes, I wish at that point the "agreed upon"
standard format would be something more universal than MS Word.  It's
pretty sick how big always seems to win the common "standard" game.

While I am thinking about it, I do recall a while back sending people a
resume formatted using Word perfect and how many times they couldn't
import it into Word or whatever and how we ended up on settling the matter
by sending it in text format instead.  I recall some other parties
requesting the thing in text strait away to avoid such compatibility
problems.

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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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