Re: slightly off-topic: support open source for publically-fundedresearch

[glen e. p. ropella]

At 08:19 AM 11/17/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/ResearchPapers/ASM01/.  I was
> testing out the StarOffice 6 when I wrote that and it has the
> interesting feature that the fonts are weird and so the pdf does
> not show dashes on some system, but otherwise it is OK.  In the
> future, I'm sticking with LyX for document preparation, at least
> I'm sure I can get stuff out of that!

Perfect meta-comment, Paul!  We're currently evaluating OpenOffice
for use at my company.  Oddly enough, the fact that it is published
as open source means nothing to us, either.  In fact, at the slightest
little problem with OpenOffice, my co-workers don't hesitate to
jump back to MS Office.  I try to tell them that we can fix any
bugs that might show up; but, they don't really listen.


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