From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:59:35 -0400 Received: from [203.36.158.121] ([203.36.158.121]:48653 "EHLO piro.kabuki.sfarc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:59:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:59:20 +1000 From: Daniel Stone To: Wayne.Brown@altec.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself. Message-ID: <20010621175920.A691@kabuki.sfarc.net> Mail-Followup-To: Wayne.Brown@altec.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <86256A71.007DEAD9.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86256A71.007DEAD9.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Organisation: Sadly lacking Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:53:44PM -0500, Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote: > Not I. The slides for my last meeting were done as TIFF files and I used xv to > display them. Plus, the most recent documentation I wrote for one of our > mainframe applications was done with vi and LaTeX. "What, in addition to the > printed copies, you want a copy of the Word document? There is no Word > document. But I'll convert it to Rich Text for you and you can take it from > there." If my employer didn't require me to use them occasionally, I'd delete > every Microsoft product on my laptop. It's not that I have anything against > proprietary software. It's just Microsoft that I despise. I did the slides for my last LUG talk in MagicPoint (apt-get install mgp, or on rpmfind.net, or wherever, maybe even with RH, I don't know). Very clean format - see http://kabuki.sfarc.net/daniel/netfilter/netfilter.mgp -- Daniel Stone "can NE1 help me aim nuclear weaponz????? /MSG ME!!"