Boston Linux Conference December 3-4

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:21, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2002, at 10:51am, pri.nhlug at iadonisi.to wrote:
> >   (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.
> 
>   Keep in mind that the people who perpetrate this kind of crime probably
> don't even know they are doing something wrong.  They are usually
> marketing-types who don't understand the difference between Microsoft Word
> and a hard disk drive.  Basically, they are ignorant, not careless.

  As far as I'm concerned:

IGNORANCE = CARELESSNESS

  But you're right that it is usually the types that can't tell the
difference between applications, data, operating systems, hardware,
etc.  Some of that is okay, but in other cases it behooves people like
us to explain to them why sending out a Word document to a Linux crowd
is bad marketing.  And given the SIZE of such documents, it's generally
bad form, anyhow.
  Perhaps someone should do to Ms. Juliet Sigmann exactly what employers
keep doing to job applicants only in reverse: request that she send this
information in a different format.  Like, oh maybe...Text?

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-Paul Iadonisi
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 Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist
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