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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 17 Apr 1996 15:18:46 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4l324m$rjc@web.nmti.com> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21505 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:621 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3238 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3058 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17461 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45787 Why is this discussion crossposted to ALL the bsd.* groups instead of just comp.unix.bsd.misc???? (see followups) In article <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com>, Tony Porczyk <tporczyk@netcom.com> wrote: > Example from my own desktop: I use Linux and FreeBSD at home, SunOS at > work, but when I sit down to write courseware (part of my job), I plug > in hard drive with Windows and MS Office. Why? Try to find a package > for UNIX that contains easily mergeable Word Processing, Presentation > and Spreadsheet that a common mortal can afford. Show me *one*. And > let's not talk about TeX. If I told the rest of the team that I will > submit my work in TeX, they would die laughing. No one has the time to > play with that kind of stuff anymore. I don't know. I find Word and Word Perfect (the 'approved' programs here) so hostile that I use them only when absolutely required. I can't imagine doing all my documentation in them... I'd rather write in raw HTML. I don't have time to play with tools like that (and that's what people do with them... you get endless macdinking of fonts and spacing and layout simply because you *can* when it just doesn't *matter*). Now I can see using a WYSIWYG drawing tool for slides, but Word? Give me a break. It's like a straightjacket. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them