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Re: How *developing* GNU Software has Helped Me.

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From: Bob Weiner
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 02:51
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One way developing free software helps people is that in the event they
change jobs, they can very likely reconstruct the same working tools
that they had before regardless of local software standards.  Thus, they
can quickly reach their base level efficiency.

It is rather apalling how many organizations are willing to commit their
mission critical data to programs that store it in unpublished,
proprietary formats, readable only by programs over which they have
little control.  Free software can lead to free data so that your
organization is not dependent on the health of another for its own
health.  (We will never even begin reducing paper use until we convert
to open data formats since 'paper' is the open the format that people
use now to ensure that they can work with information regardless of the
local tools available.)

Bob

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99% of what my law office does is word processing.  -- A lawyer
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Subject: Re: How *developing* GNU Software has Helped Me.
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