anti-word

[Gregory Nowak]

Shaun, how do we change the defacto file format then from ms-word to something else? Start a "drop ms-word" campign maybe? Of course, such a thing would require finances as well.
Greg


On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:00:12PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> 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.
> >
> Well, like it or not, this is the standard we need to either abide by or
> change. Right at the moment all I'm seeing is a whole lot of bitching
> about ms word and such.
> to revisit Kirk w's post a few days ago, we need to take into account that
> microsoft word is the enforced some would say prefered word processor that
> is widely used in the workplace today.
> We need to be mindful of this when we decide not to give a fuck about
> formatting and presentation.
> I've had it pointed out to me in no uncertain terms that this is the way
> things are.
> so let's just stop fucking around with bitching and either do something
> about it or fucking well live with it!!
> I don't like microsoft any more than alot of you do but like it or not,
> it's here and we have to deal with it.
> if microsoft on the other hand were to get things right in the first place
> and not be so kind as to stoop to exploitative and scare tactics etc, we
> probably wouldn't even be having this discussion.
> I'm sorry for my use of colourful metafores but that's just how ai see the
> whole thing.
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