Boston Linux Conference December 3-4

[Price, Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Iadonisi [mailto:pri.nhlug at iadonisi.to]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:51 AM
> To: Greater New Hampshire LUG
> Subject: Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4
> 
> 
>   (Look, I had zero problems [that I could tell, but I didn't look
> closely] reading this in OpenOffice, but too me, it's just asinine, to
> send out Linux conference info in .doc format.  However, 
> please do note
> the smiley above.  Someday, if the OASIS group has it way, we 
> won't have
> to deal with this anymore. /me hopes for the impossible.)

I hear you.  I don't like .DOC either, and when I wrote my resume
a few months ago, I distributed it as PDF on principle.  (Also so
that people don't try to examine the file's contents for "deleted"
data).  I was amazed at how many people said they needed Word 
format.  Excel is another one -- I am amazed by how much data is
stored in an Excel spreadsheet (rather than a DB) by companies.
I think Excel is fine for manipulating data, but it's not really
an ideal storage format... (of course, it's easy and it's there
[on windows] so people are going to use it).



Erik