j2ee and python and evil competitors

Steve Menard steve.menard at polyester.com
Wed Jul 10 15:32:07 EDT 2002


"Jacek Generowicz" <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote in message
news:tyf7kk4jauz.fsf at pcitapi22.cern.ch...
> "Bo M. Maryniuck" <b.maryniuk at forbis.lt> writes:
>
> > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 16:59, curt finch wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.jump.net/pub/journyx/other/PythonWhtPaper0_1.doc
> >
> > Right people will not download this. M$ Word DOC is *evil* format.
Please do
> > PDF, DVI or HTML instead.
>
> I'll second that. I was about to have a look, and then saw the doc
> extension. I take doc extensions to mean "This document is intended
> for Microsoft customers only". I am not a Microsoft customer.

See, this is something I really don't understand. I will agree that PDF or
html would have been a better choice, but not everyone can generate PDF ya
know. With this kind of attitude, we'll forever be regarded as the
extremists who won't listen to anything ....

        Steve





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