Emacs used by secretaries? (Was: Copyleft benefits users, ...)

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From: Juergen Nickelsen
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 22:55

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In article <1992Jan18.075123.26591@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com
(Kee Hinckley) writes:

- In article <24724@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:

- -Emacs is an excellent example of this.  Secretaries all over the world
- -use Emacs, and their skills are portable to many other companies or

- You are dreaming.  Secretaries all over the world know how to use
- typewriters and maybe Microsoft Word.  Secretaries all over the world
- think Unix is someone who had a nasty accident.  Secretaries all over
- the world are the ones for whom you see posting once every week or
- so on comp.windows.x asking "Does anyone have a very simple, easy to
- learn, wysiwyg editor for our non-technical users?".

Just to give one, non-representative example: Our secretary uses
Emacs, troff, *and* a typewriter (e.g. for envelopes, which our
printer can't cope with).

--
Juergen Nickelsen                               nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de

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