From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 04:46:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 04:46:10 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:23003 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 04:46:09 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself. Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9gsc8f$kri$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <993069751.10191.0.camel@agate> <20010620153345.I3089@work.bitmover.com> <3B312CC5.89EA2C30@fc.hp.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 993113167 31741 212.34.181.4 (21 Jun 2001 08:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:46:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Khalid Aziz writes: >Larry McVoy wrote: >> >> You can scream all you want that "it isn't free software" but the fact >> of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for >> your Linux talks in PowerPoint. >At the Linux SuperClusters 2000 Conference, MadDog and I were the the >only ones with slides done on Linux. Pretty sad! The only sad thing here is the state that Office applications for Linux are in. Before the last talk I did, I was wrestling for a whole sunny and really nice saturday, where I could've done many better things that sitting in front of a computer, with KPresenter and StarOffice on my notebook to get at least some slides done. At 8pm I gave up, fired the Win NT box of my wife and had about twenty slides done with PP in just under two hours (I had the text and images ready on paper and had just to create slides). They looked well on screen, on the presentation beamer and printed in colour _and_ black and white. SO and KPresenter both were able to do two of these four things. My last LinuxExpo talk was also made with PP, but I did't have the courage to boot up a notebook with Windows in front of all the Free Software guys to do a "migrate from Windows to Unix" talk. So I took printed slides. Yeah, call me a chicken. :-) Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20