Re: [tlug] [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

["Roger Markus" <rogermarku@example.com>]

On 7/10/07, Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com> wrote:
> Using "I only use Windows because I'm forced to at work" is a kind of
> apathy.  Although now I think of it, it's more fatalism than apathy.
> Me, I just don't use Windows, simply because nothing I want to do works
> well on it.

That would get you fired from a lot of high paying jobs.  It's not
apathy, I am constantly trying to get people at the corporation I work
at interested in Linux.  I've even succeeded in getting a few people
to try it out at home.  But the IT department doesn't want to hear
about it for anything other than servers.  Middle management loves
"Outlook" like too many people love designer clothing.  The IT
Department guys (I guess that means some of *you* guys, come to think
of it!!) want to please middle management, so they don't want to hear
any criticism of Microsoft.  Apathy on my part?  I don't think so!
More like spinelessness on the part of the IT Department!

RM