home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Linux - the future?
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 02:02:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.020232.9608@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov07.192948.15392@ksmith.uucp> <1992Nov8.202550.13831@mo.hobby.nl>
- Lines: 23
-
- In article <1992Nov8.202550.13831@mo.hobby.nl> hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) writes:
- >keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
- >
- [...]
- >>don't mean niche work either. Visit 5 lawyers offices, and 5
- >>accountants office at random in your area, and see what they are using
- >>for Word Processing. Wanna take any wagers you won't find *ANY* that
- >>are using roff or Tex? (Yea, I'm sure there are exceptions, but I'll
- >>make the bet with anyone willing to roll the dice with the yellow pages.)
- >
- >I know of at least one law firm were they use GNU emacs and LaTeX.
-
- I said *RANDOM* selection out of a phone book. Like start at A and work
- your way down. I DID say there were exceptions but I'd bet less than
- 10% even have a *IX based system, and less than 1% would be using a Text
- Processing System on ANY enviroment. People are generally lazy, and
- don't want to learn this stuff, even if it is the best thing since
- a post hole digger.
-
- --
- Keith Smith uunet!ksmith!keith 5719 Archer Rd.
- Digital Designs BBS 1-919-423-4216 Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
- Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...
-