From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 22 10:28:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16940 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16935 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:28:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA05716; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:28:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:28:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us To: Eivind Eklund cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav?= , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Computers In-Reply-To: <19980922145530.20972@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA16936 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message