[Am-info] Forced to use MS Office

[John Bryan]

I can relate.  I had to go to great lengths to explain to mgt why we 
were using CVS on UNIX for our source code management instead of Visual 
Source Safe 'like everybody else'.  Nevermind the fact that all the code 
is written, compiled, maintained and run on UNIX, and there had *never* 
been *any* sort of source management in that area before I downloaded 
and installed CVS myself.  Since there didn't seem to be any version  of 
VSS really available for Compaq TRU-64 (nee DEC Alpha) UNIX, I managed 
to 'get away with it'.  sheesh.

JB

On Saturday, December 15, 2001, at 06:06  PM, Mark Hinds wrote:

>
> For years I've been happily using an advanced wordprocessing tool
> know as vee-eye (vi), even to do html. I use tgif for drawings.
> http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/
>
> Owing to a recent merger my group has been COMPELLED to use MS
> word to create SW design docs. Never mind that I can't run Word
> on my linux work station. Never mind that it will take time to
> get it running and cost money to pay for Windows and Office licenses.
>
> Why? Because the engineers we've been merged with run Windows
> and have always used office for such tasks. I've tried all the
> recent and old versions of StarOffice and WordPerfect, but none
> of them render the drawings generated by word97/2000 correctly.
> This directive comes from my new Engineering Manager. I'm really
> not free to argue this point into the ground with him so here
> I am stuck.
>
> So yes MS office is being Shoved down peoples throats.
>