Quoting Muli Ben-Yehuda, from the post of Wed, 26 Feb: > > > Seriously, while PDF is not a panacea for many Windows kiddies who only > > know of Word, it is still much more accesible than PostScript. Sending a > > document to a Windows guy in PS format is like sending a document to a > > UNIX guy in Word format. Not a nice thing to do.
why do you even compare the two? PDF is a presentation format, Word is editable, scriptable source, for starters. Both are proprietary though (Ask Sklyarov). > I disagree. Unless PDF comes by default on windows nowday, installing > a postscript viewer should be no more and no less complicated than > installing a PDF viewer. well, due to a very good marketing campaign, many people recognize the .pdf extension, almost as many as those who recognize .html. however .ps is rarely recognized outside the Unix/Mac user domain. It may be easy to install, if people knew about it. And shlofmi said: > > [1] http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ > Interesting link, which I completely don't agree with. If I can get > the software I write to run on Windows and other non-UNIX platforms > without too much overhead, I will try to do so. While the latest > version of Quad-Pres can only run on UNIX (partly because I'm using > WML), I believe all my other software is compatible with Windows. I Agree in full. Felix has a twisted view on what software freedom is (it seems like a lot of his page is full of DJB's stuff. While I agree it's great software, it's not free, and I ache for a GPL replacement) Asking for people not to port software to windows is rediculous. I see the idea of porting Free Software everywhere as the best thing to do. you flood windows users with a Free environment, they will get used to it, and finally switching the kernel will not be fealt. BillG will call us Viral for saying that, but it's the Utopia I dream of :) -- Big fish in a small pond Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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