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> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Computers Message-ID: <19980922145530.20972@follo.net> 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 References: <xzp7lyxb24o.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809212120380.1975-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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