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On 5 Aug 01, at 13:42, Maximiliano Eschoyez wrote:

> 
> Excuse me, but you don't know anything about text formating under
> Un*x.
> I'm writing my final work for my engineering estudies and I working
> with LaTeX and writing under Midnight Commander. And my papers are
> all written in the same way.
> 
> If you want to know more I'm only 23 and I like ASCII terminal.
> What's the problem?
> 

Hello,

I'd like to thank you Maximiliano for putting some politeness into 
this thread.  My heart sank when its tone began to run into the 
usual personal insults and downright rudeness that characterise 
such so called 'flame wars.'

If we, who think that open-source and free software are the key to 
developing the strength and capacity of ICT, can not rise above 
petty insults, how are we ever going to persuade the rest of the 
world that we are right and that the commercial houses should 
expose their code to public scrutiny?

Let's keep it more friendly and more reasonable, please.

Stuart.


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