Desktop Linux (fwd)

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:38:27AM -0800, Michael Costolo wrote:
> --- Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> > So - You are saying that using OpenOffice writer, a clone of MS-Word,
> > constitutes 'Learning a new application" for a Microsoft Word user?
> 
> Yes.

That's complete nonsense.

learn v. tr.  gain knowledge of or skill in by study, experience, or
by being taught.  --OEAD

So, if they have no experience with OO, and spent no time studying or
being taught about OO, then they clearly have not learned it.  Q.E.D.

What they learned was Microsoft Office.  That it is a different
program is not important; for all cases where it matters to these
users, it is functionally identical.  No learning required.

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Derek D. Martin
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