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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!tporczyk From: tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Message-ID: <tporczykDq1Jr5.GBD@netcom.com> Organization: ITRC References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l324m$rjc@web.nmti.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 04:42:41 GMT Lines: 17 Sender: tporczyk@netcom14.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:785 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46429 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17766 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Now I can see using a WYSIWYG drawing tool for slides, but Word? Give me >a break. It's like a straightjacket. I may partly agree with you (if you include graphics from slides in your document, Word is convenient), but how do you convince milions who who already are sold on graphical word processing? Just like the "better OS" argument doesn't work with most consumers, neither does trying to convince them to switch back to editor/code style word processing. t. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Porczyk * tporczyk@netcom.com * San Jose, California GIT/ED d++$(!d) s++:++ a? C++++ USLB++++$ P+ E--- W(--) N++ !k w-- M- V? b- PS+++@ PE++ O X-- Y++@ PGP-- t+@ 5++ R* D---- e* V-- h* y** r+++(*)+++(*)>? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------