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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Content Format


From: Tom Chance
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Content Format
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:37:10 -0800 (PST)

Just so long as we can parse these files, we should
accept them until M$ or whoever comes and throws a fit
about it, when we'll have to remove that part of the
process.

Tom Chance


--- Hook <address@hidden> wrote: > Mike
Warren wrote:
> > Bob Dodd <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > OK, you can encourage certain content formats,
> but you can't be too
> > > prescriptive. We also have to live in the real
> world, where most of
> > > our authors may be computer literate, but their
> idea of document
> > > production is to use commercial tools (that
> often come "free" with
> > > their PCs).
> >
> > I don't think we should accept proprietary formats
> at all, in keeping
> > with the GNU project's goals. This eliminates
> Microsoft Word,
> > obviously.
> 
> .. and RTF (for what it's worth).  I disagree with
> this for practical
> reasons. Most people have access to MickeySoft
> products, and regardless of
> how little some of us like them, they *are*
> pervasive, and I don't think
> that what amounts to a religious doctrine (free or
> nothing) should get in
> the way of the practical needs of receiving
> articles.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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