Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:04:53 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3?= Pasternak <doc@lublin.t1.pl> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NatWest? no thanks Message-ID: <20011103000452.C65729@lublin.t1.pl> In-Reply-To: <20011102215135.A484-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> References: <x8k7x8dioy.7x8@localhost.localdomain> <20011102215135.A484-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net>
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Nils Holland [Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:06:34PM +0100]: > On 2 Nov 2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > But one must admit that when users had the choice of M$DOS or CP/M > > or Mac or IBM or legions of Unix OSes, few could afford to choose one of > > the technically better OSes. > Do the test: Go out on the street and ask random people if they know what > OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, BeOS or CP/M are. Ask the same people to > define the term "operating system." Post the results to the forum, and Well, you could find such forum on http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_os.shtml > Open up Microsoft Word. Type the folowing exactly as shown: "I cannot let > a sentence start with a non-capital letter. here is the proof!" It's easy to turn it off. MS Word has also many other features (even those turned-on by default), which are not available on Unix, no matter which (native) office suite we would use. > created stupid, because it seems as if MS doesn't want to give me the > right to start sentences with non-capital letters unless I specifically Sue them. > I guess that on FreeBSD with KDE or GNOME, you can put your effort into > other, creative things. You can, however, also decide not to do that and > instead play the game "the hard way". It's that flexibility that I regard > as important. KOffice sucks, it's not for human use, it's untested, it's unuseable. I'd rather learn to write / read pure TeX, that use that so-called Office package. -- [ Michal Pasternak doc@lublin.t1.pl +48606570000 ] [ sklepy internetowe, bazy danych, programy na zamówienie ] [ . .. ..- .- . .. http://lublin.t1.pl . .-. .--.. . . .- ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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