Social October 2001

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Fwd: Re: [alug social] M$
by Ricardo Campos 03 Oct '01

03 Oct '01

>From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> >Reply-To: David_freeman(a)rocketmail.com >To: ricardo(a)corez23.com, socail(a)lists.alug.org.uk >Subject: Re: [alug social] M$ >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 05:56:14 -0700 (PDT) > > >--- Ricardo Campos <corez23(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > When will people learn? I just had to spend £12000 on behalf of my > > company > > to buy 70 licenses for Office XP when our computers can't handle it > > so we're > > on Office 97. But they won't let us buy '97 licenses. > > GREED, anyone? > >At college we had a challenge to give a design for a computer room and >to see who could do it cheapest, I beat everyone else by over 33000ukp >just by using linux, I spent more on hw! > > > I have 2 words for this; OPEN SOURCE. > > Products such as word processors just don't improve that greatly from > > > > release to release. For most office purposes all they are is a > > glorified > > typewriter. Why spend the cash? >:| > >For most people they spend to much time fiddling with presentation in >word, using LaTeX speeds up the work no end as you type the text in and >simply mark it up as to how it should be, saved me hours on my college >work! > >Thanks > >D > >PS can you forward this to the list if it doesn't get to the list >properly? > > > Ricardo, > > > > "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from > > an > > Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though > > spawned in > > a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil > > than man." > > -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Alug Social mailing list > > To post: Social(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > To change your subscription options, visit:- > > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social > > >===== >-------------------- >"We all know Linux is great... > it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." >Linus Torvalds > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. >http://phone.yahoo.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: Fwd: Re: [alug social] M$
by MJ Ray 03 Oct '01

03 Oct '01

This week, I am mostly fiddling with texmacs for my desktop publishing enjoyment. -- MJR I work for this clever Internet developer ==> http://www.luminas.co.uk/

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M$
by Ricardo Campos 03 Oct '01

03 Oct '01

When will people learn? I just had to spend £12000 on behalf of my company to buy 70 licenses for Office XP when our computers can't handle it so we're on Office 97. But they won't let us buy '97 licenses. GREED, anyone? I have 2 words for this; OPEN SOURCE. Products such as word processors just don't improve that greatly from release to release. For most office purposes all they are is a glorified typewriter. Why spend the cash? >:| Ricardo, "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from an Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though spawned in a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil than man." -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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