"Steven T. Hatton"
I am required by law (at least that is what I've been told) to deliver my documentation in MS Word format. This forces me to use MS products to create any work related documentation.
I find especially obscene, in particular, that people working on international standardisation committees routinely use MS-Word, which is an industry, proprietary standard, to describe and develop international standards. It looks like if they do not believe much in their own international standards about documentation. So, I keep asking them to give me something that does not require me to use or buy proprietary software. They sometimes point me to some "free" (gratis) readers, forgetting that these tools still tie me to MS-Windows. A few years ago, I almost convinced many of these people that we should do something about this, and I seriously offered to dive into this problem with energy, as most of them are not programmers. As long as it was only speech, it was easy for them, but when they realised there was a real risk that their habits be compromised at the end, they fainted and backed out. Today, I would probably not make the same offer again, as I've not enough free time to make it realistically. Or maybe I just lost hope? :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/