RE: [Bug-gnubg] Re: Tutorial 2.00 - Comments

[Albert Silver]

> Read this nice article about using Microsoft Word:
> 
> http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm
> 
> It points out one of the dangers of using MS-Word. Not that a revision
> log is bad for our project, but Word is such a big, bloat application
> that it's nearly impossible to control the document. It's also saved
in
> a undocumented binary format, and that will make our revision control
> trickier. What if two of us is editing the same document at the same
> time? Using a a plain text document format is much better for this
> purpose. texi can be a candidate, so can LaTeX.
> 
> And if the master document is in MS-Word, it demand that the user is
> sitting on a Windows computer and uses MS-Word as his Word processor
> application. This is absolutly not what the GNU philosophy is about.
GNU
> philosophy says things should be free, that free to choose, free to
use
> what ever Operating System I want, free to cooperate with other
> developers and free from all closed file formats. Using MS-Word blocks
> some of the possibility for the developers and documentation writers
to
> cooperate.

How about OpenOffice?

> If Albert allows it, 

Yes. I said from the beginning that it was meant to be a gift to the
GNUBG project.

> we should decide to use some kind of plain text
> based format of the master document, and add it to the CVS.
> Albert, do you have write access to the CVS?

No, I do not unless being a subscriber to the mailing list grants that
access. I have never tried to upload anything to the CVS so do not know.

                                        Albert


> 
> Just my 0,15  NOK,
> -Øystein
>