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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:28:09 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network Computers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809221227270.5695-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <19980922145530.20972@follo.net>

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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> 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..."

Right.  But how do you explain this to someone who has been brainwashed?
:-)  That's rhetorical.. Don't answer it.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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