On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Faber Fedor wrote:
> >I really have no desire to impose formatting on those who would use our
> >information; if a vendor wants to take our info and re-format it to suit
> >the style of their existing presentation, fine by me.
> And what *I* would like to avoid is the (I beleive) majority of people
> who will look at the information and NOT be able to reformat it.
> From my experience, that extra step will discourage quite a few people
> (the majority, actually) from using our information. Sure, someone
> like me, who is technically-savvy (and good-looking, to boot! :-)
> won't have a problem with reformating the information, but most people
> will.
Which is why I propose making the information available in *one* "paper
media" format. I would like this format to be:
- known to be importable into most current word processors
- fully featured enough to include the formatting features most people
will want/need
- generally well-known to the public
- created or supported by a company with a demonstrated friendliness
towards Linux and the Linux community
The one format that meets all these qualifications is WordPerfect. It's
the one paper format for anyone in the Linux community can download a
reading *and editing* tool.
I use WP as my word-processor of choice. Dan now absolutely loves it,
he said so himself :-) (http://lwn.net/daily/lwn3/lwn3.html)
Considering that we *all* can download WordPerfect for Linux at no cost,
the products is well-known worldwide, that its format is easily importable
into MS-Word, is there any reason *not* to use this as our standard
"paper" format?
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