From: David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com Reply-To: David_freeman@rocketmail.com To: ricardo@corez23.com, socail@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [alug social] M$ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 05:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
--- Ricardo Campos corez23@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
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