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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
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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"...

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Joe Sloan               Happily running Unix!
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