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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!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: Tom Crofford <tomc@xeta.com> 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: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:12:06 -0700 Organization: XETA Corporation Lines: 16 Message-ID: <317AF906.592C@xeta.com> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l324m$rjc@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsip129.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:805 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46696 Peter da Silva wrote: > 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*). Peter, Millions of people successfully use Word and Wordperfect all day, every day. I have personally written numerous manuals with Word. One of them was over 400 pages long. Serious users of Word do not 'endlessly macdink' with their fonts. Tom tomc@xeta.com