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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:55:30 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>,
        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: Network Computers
References: <xzp7lyxb24o.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809212120380.1975-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809212120380.1975-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from Chris Dillon on Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:33:25PM -0500
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On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:33:25PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On 21 Sep 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
> 
> > Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> writes:
> > > I could do something very similar if I were using FreeBSD or Linux
> > > workstations here (which I would _really_ love, but alas, most people
> > > here say "Duh, What's Unix?" or "But, it doesn't run MS Word".  Ugh.).
> > 
> > To which you answer, 'but it does run StarOffice and ApplixWare'.
> > 
> > FU set to -advocacy :)
> 
> And I get the reply "Yeah, but we're standardizing on MS Word".

And to this you reply something like this: "MS-Word - there is no MS
word.  There is just different versions of MS-Word, with the same
problems between them as between different word-processors.  Like the
fact that it can't read the old documents - I sometimes feel a little
disconcerned that all the companies that use MS Word throws away their
archives every two years..."

Eivind.

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