Easy, they see a text file in the response. -- Charlie. At 11:14 AM 1/13/02 -0600, you wrote: >And how do you expect them to know about the other platforms if all they >know about their windows computer is how to turn it on and off? >Greg > > >On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:17:03PM -0500, Charles Crawford wrote: > > Hello Amanda, Janina and other interested listers, > > > > Well, looks like the world of advocacy is impinging on planet > > Linux. It is correct to point out that in the ideal there should not be a > > word processing standard imposed by a company, but as we all know, the > > sender of a word file getting a text file back might not see the world in > > the same way. Don't you just hate it when that happens. Smile. > > > > I guess my view is that if word users want to communicate with > > those who don't use word, then they have to adjust to the realities of > > other computer platforms. Consumer choice still has it's place! > > > > -- Charlie Crawford. > > > > > > > > At 11:09 AM 01/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >Amen! to that Janina! > > > > > >Amanda > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > > >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > >Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 11:06 AM > > >Subject: Re: anti-word > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yes and if a word document is sent to you for your input and editing, > > >I'm > > > > > sure the original party would expect the thing to come back in Word > > >format > > > > > along with the built-in formatting, styles and such. Some of > this whole > > > > > anti Word sounds arogant to me. > > > > > > > > > > > > I rather think it arrogant to presume everyone wants and reads Word. I > > > > regard it as arrogant to presume we all pay tribute to Microsoft. I > > > > further regard it arrogant to treat a proprietary, non-consensus, file > > > > format as some kind of standard. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
