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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
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References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com>
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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.
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