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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.netvoyage.net!digital.netvoyage.net!not-for-mail From: jjs@digital.netvoyage.net (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.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) Date: 17 Apr 1996 11:24:36 -0700 Organization: NetVoyage Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4l3d14$d53@digital.netvoyage.net> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l324m$rjc@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: digital.netvoyage.net X-Ident: jjs X-Warning: X-Ident uses identd and is subject to forgery. Be careful. Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:766 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46209 In article <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com>, Tony Porczyk <tporczyk@netcom.com> wrote: > ... 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*. uh, Star Office? Angoss Smartware? > 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. Come again? TeX/LaTeX is widely used in a lot of places - Sorry to hear about the ignorance of your "team"... -- Joe Sloan Happily running Unix! jjs@netvoyage.net <a href="http://www.netvoyage.net/~jjs">