Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

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Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 23 March 2014 23:08, lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> There is no-one on the planet who thinks emacs is minimalistic
>>
>> I`m not so sure about that.  There are even ppl who have never heard
>> about emacs, and if they`d see it, they might very well think it is.
>>
>
> "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping" This is a program which has the
> reputation of having a module for everything. Why are people who have
> never heard of it relevant?

Because their existence disproves that nobody thinks that emacs is
minimalistic.

>> Even if they don`t, I can still edit them and make adjustments if
>> necessary.  If anything fails, I can print the sources as they are.  Had
>> I used some WYSIWYG word processing software instead, I wouldn`t even be
>> able to read them anymore because this word processing software doesn`t
>> exist anymore since a long time.
>>
>
> Yes plain LaTeX is fairly readable in source form, but that's not an
> absolute requirement for being future proof. Educate yourself on ODF.
> You could even get the plain text out.

ODF didn`t exist twenty years ago.


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