Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking''

[Doofus <doofus@bulldoghome.com>]

Joel Peter William Pitt wrote:

> Ok, this is my first foray into debian-user and this behaviour doesn't
> impress me. I'm not a newbie, I've been using debian for the past 6
> years after changing from redhat.
>
> Did you actually bother to find anything out about MS Project? If it
> is indeed in clear text then 'less' is a useful suggestion, but in my
> experience MS files are usually binary. You should have suggested that
> they export to a cleartext file if you don't agree with
> cross-compatibility - which is actually how M$ behaves by changing
> their file formats all the time and keeping them closed.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Joel
>
> On 7/25/05, Anders Breindahl <skrewz@skrewz.dk> wrote:
>  
>
> > I am sorry, that you read it as me picking on newbies. That was not my
> > intention; I merely (attempted unarrogantly) tried to state the not-always
> > obvious.
> >
> > I am also sorry to announce, that I am one of those, who will be ``jumping
> > down peoples' throats'' in the case of not keeping to the net-etiquette. It
> > really makes it less satisfying to be a part of the community. I suppose I
> > don't belong on -user with this standpoint; but as it seems like the only
> > place in Debian I may be of service, I stick around, keeping my annoyance to
> > myself (mostly, that is).
> >
> > In defence of my post, though:
> > It is my experience, that the Windows-community uses cleartext files more
> > often than one assumes. (Opposite to arbitrary binary formats).
> > Often I have been able to extract the information I needed by treating the
> > files as cleartext.
> > I am also convinced, that no one would want to run a Windows-only IDE on a
> > GNU/Linux machine -- and I therefore assumed that Rajiv only wanted to do the
> > ``extracting information''-part, and therefore could cope with `less`.
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Project is a beast that I am afraid to learn.  But I would be interested
> > > to know if anyone has tried it in wine.
> > >      
> > Not that I have the ability to command such development forces -- but wouldn't
> > creating a Microsoft-compatible program be a misallocation of Free Software
> > development ressources?
> > The trouble about .doc seems to prove that to me: The more we want a a
> > FS-alternative to a Microsoft program, the harder they will make it to
> > develop?
> >
> > Regards, Anders Breindahl.
> >    
Six years a debian man but you blithely ignore both the general 
abhorrence of top-posting and the guideline not to cc and poster who 
doesn't request it.