Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:28:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Computers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809221227270.5695-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19980922145530.20972@follo.net>
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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 <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..." 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
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