Is Canonical Becoming The New Microsoft?

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Thu, February 11, 2010 17:37, Tero Pesonen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 16:17 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse (u2s) wrote:
>> On Wed, February 10, 2010 16:34, Tero Pesonen wrote:
>>
>> You don't write a thesis or a research paper with a word processor. You
>> need a document processor for such things. Something that uses LaTeX,
>> like
>> Lyx. Really. Trust me. When was the last time you have written a thesis?
>> Everybody I know, myself included, writes their thesis and research
>> papers
>> in LaTeX. They (and I) use the word processors (MS Word, AbiWord, OOo
>> Writer) only for simple things like letters.
>
> They obviously do not collaborate with other researcher that do not use
> LaTeX. I've tried using it. But because no one else does, collaboration
> becomes impossible. Believe me, I would like to use it, and I certainly
> will the day the EU accepts project applications written with LaTeX and
> most of my colleagues adopt it. But when everyone I work with uses MS
> Word, and all the document templates I have to use are .dot files, I
> either use OpenOffice (sometimes also MS Word on VirtualBox), or I find
> myself another job.

You know what? I had exactly the same experience, but opposite. If
everyone around me uses LaTeX, then it is not possible for me to
collaborate when I use MsWord or OOo.

-- 
Amedee