Paul Cameron was once rumoured to have said:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:44:37PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
> I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their
> own crazt abiword or man crap. It cant generate proper .doc files, so
> where is the point? I tried to make for them for application documentate
> software, but i can't appease those freakes.
M$ Word is not the start-all or end-all of the world.
Text is much better. LaTeX, SGML and HTML are also fine. All of these can
be read using any text editor.
>> It jus' ain't practical compared with ASCII and HTML.
>
> Seem my previous stuff it you see Word exports html files!! Its damm
> easy u just select if from the menu.
You call that HTML?
Testing the Word version of resume using Word97's HTML export against
the W3C Validation service fails HTML 4.01 Transitional validation
quite badly.
[I have a word copy of my resume to appease brainless recruiters - I
used to submit a text-only version and ended up with recruiters
complaining that they "couldn't open it". *sigh*]
> Look, I've seen this before. If you want to be employable, than you
> need to have the skills. Not knowing basics documentation stuff like
> Word is surefire way to get passed up. Anyhow theres my advice.
And you just proved to me that you already lack these skills. There
is absolutely no way I'd hire you to do anything other than bring me
coffee - and even then, that would be under careful supervision. ["I
said white, with 3 sugars damnit!"]
_But_ this thread wasn't about Linux vs Windoze, it was about
interoperability.
Communication "Standards" should never dictate that you *must* run on
a certain OS to speak it. [I'm sure there are some viable examples of
the contrary, I just can't think of any right now.]
Especially when the government is involved - whatever happened to
freedom of choice?
Why are we having a choice of platform dictated to us?
The government doesn't say we must all be caucasian, speak perfect
english with the exact same accent in order to communicated with them.
Why should we have to put up with this sort of treatment with our
computers?
We should have a standard, published communications standard for these
things - and all should be able to speak it.
C.
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