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From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@327.ca>
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Subject: Re: Introductory Book on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:48:08 -0700
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On Monday 21 May 2001 23:15, ML Duke wrote:

[...]

> So he has a look, says basically "not bad for a draft," and then
> says you did it with $mswurd!??!

> What kind of statement is _that_?

> You do a book on FBSD, and use $ms tools to produce it?

> Tell me he is mistaken.
> I shudder to go look for myself as he's _never_
> been wrong on this sort of thing.

He is mistaken. Not about the use of Word, but to think that it actually 
matters. 

As Freud is supposed to have said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". Well, 
sometimes a word processor is just a word processor, and not a political 
statement.

The world is full of people who will read a manuscript, say something 
dismissive about it being "not bad for a draft", then zero in on the software 
used to create it. You could find a better mentor, IMHO.

M.

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Michael O'Henly

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