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Article #71982Re: How *developing* GNU Software has Helped Me.
From: Bob Weiner
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 02:51
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rather apalling how many organizations are willing to commit their mission critical data to programs that store it in unpublished, proprietary formats, readable only by programs over which they have little control.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 -- 99% of what my law office does is word processing. -- A lawyer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,2d26c6d8e80c90a X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-05-18 12:58:44 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!brunix!doorknob!rsw From: rsw@cs.brown.EDU (Bob Weiner) Subject: Re: How *developing* GNU Software has Helped Me. In-Reply-To: yee@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu's message of 18 May 92 21:15:49 GMT Message-ID: <RSW.92May18215117@flanger.cs.brown.EDU> Sender: news@cs.brown.edu Organization: Brown U. References: <1992May17.210639.5009@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <78283@netnews.upenn.edu> <DAVIDM.92May18102621@consilium.com> <78349@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 02:51:17 GMT Lines: 20