On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
There have been several posts to this list recently in which people proudly proclaimed to have Microsoft-free systems. Perhaps a few words are in order why I and quite a few others have not gone that route.
of course, you are 100% entitled to run anything you want. i just thought i'd pick up on your troll.
Third, there are some programs and other facilities that just have no equivalent in Linux and probably never will. My best examples are TurboTax and AOL, but there are others.
turbotax for the web, and i wont even talk about AOL. DVD support is lacking though..:)
Fourth, I often need to interchange documents with people who are running the latest version of Word. Yes, I know about Star Office and use it, but it hasn't (and probably can't) keep up with the Microsoft updates. People will use what they will use, and I don't think I'd get very far in convincing them to eschew Word.
you let others decide what you'll run? if someone wants you to read something, then they'll happily export it to an open format.
Make no mistake about it: I have no love for Microsoft.
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