The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.
Quoted 3 lines · Larry McVoy
You can scream all you want that "it isn't free software" but the fact of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for your Linux talks in PowerPoint.
Not I. The slides for my last meeting were done as TIFF files and I used xv to display them. Plus, the most recent documentation I wrote for one of our mainframe applications was done with vi and LaTeX. "What, in addition to the printed copies, you want a copy of the Word document? There is no Word document. But I'll convert it to Rich Text for you and you can take it from there." If my employer didn't require me to use them occasionally, I'd delete every Microsoft product on my laptop. It's not that I have anything against proprietary software. It's just Microsoft that I despise.
Quoted 8 lines · On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:53:44PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
Not I. The slides for my last meeting were done as TIFF files and I used xv to display them. Plus, the most recent documentation I wrote for one of our mainframe applications was done with vi and LaTeX. "What, in addition to the printed copies, you want a copy of the Word document? There is no Word document. But I'll convert it to Rich Text for you and you can take it from there." If my employer didn't require me to use them occasionally, I'd delete every Microsoft product on my laptop. It's not that I have anything against proprietary software. It's just Microsoft that I despise.
I did the slides for my last LUG talk in MagicPoint (apt-get install mgp, or on rpmfind.net, or wherever, maybe even with RH, I don't know). Very clean format - see http://kabuki.sfarc.net/daniel/netfilter/netfilter.mgp
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