At 10:47 AM 7/28/99 -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>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
Okay. MS Word it is then! :-)
>- created or supported by a company with a demonstrated friendliness
> towards Linux and the Linux community
I don't see how this is relevant. I hear great things about WP, but I have
to ask, "so what?" If a reporter comes to our site and can't find the
format he's looking for, he'll turn around and tell his boss that it's not
in any format they can use. He is *not* going to think "Well, let's see
what formats are here that I can import." Okay, if the report is Cringely,
sure he can handle the importation, but if it's Joe Blow at the local rag,
no way!
>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.
Yes. *In the Linux community*. What about outside the Linux community?
THAT is who we're after!
>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?
Yeah, two of those things are beyond the capability of alot of people:
downloading WP and importing files.
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