On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 20:09:00 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > On 10/31/06, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.co.yu> wrote: > > > >> You can always send them PDFs as a revenge... > > > > > > > >Don't be so althruistic! Send them > > > >postscript file. > > > > > > > > > > > > Zoran > > > > > > Or perhaps a .dvi file? :-) > > > > Might be a bit unhandy because the dvi files do not include embedded > > graphics. Anyway, it should be perfectly OK to send out an OASIS Open > > Document file. If people do not want to (or cannot) install a program to > > read the file, then they can easily look up the specification on the > > web, uncompress the document and parse the XML directly themselves, > > right? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Florian > > > Hey, you are more evil than I am! > > I like this community. > -- Hi Nyizsnyik, many folks use windows, using MS word on windows does not require that you save documents as .doc format and allows using rtf or ascii. If folks did this, we would not be required to go through hoops to exchange files. So by using .doc, it requires us to go through hoops, so asking someone to get a free and libre program that can read and write an open format is a more 'social' and 'friendly' thing to do than to ask us to support closed-source proprietary formats that do not act similarly social. I think it is 'evil' but not evil. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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