ISO 26300
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Hey no sweat
I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you're at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.I've been using free software (both free as in freedom and free as in beer) off and on since I discovered slackware in the 90s, but I'll be the first to admit I'm not plugged into the scene. I'm not plugged into most scenes except possibly rock and Americana music, and I know all the gross shit that happened there. Rock music especially. And that may actually be why I tend to avoid getting plugged in.
But I went through the whole report. I'm sad to find out someone with such lofty ideals in one area is so scummy. A lot of that just sounds like typical neckbeard idiocy dialed up to maximum. And if he were just any neckbeard or incel on the street everyone could just dismiss him. But he's a prominent figure that represents a movement spouting gross and harmful shit. It has nothing to do with the validity of the movement, nor does it remove the value of free software, but him being a keynote speaker everywhere and being so involved makes things feel dirty.
I don't know. I didn't take my medication today so I'm scattered. I just hate when people doing important or influential work are gross people, especially if they have harmful attitudes towards minors.
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It's the root mean square of Riker.
Well played
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I genuinely think they're just incompetent lol
You should see the windows xp source code
You should see the windows xp source code
The rapidly dwindling sanity of windows programmers as expressed through code comments
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OpenOffice
Dude that thing doesn't get a proper update since 2014, the most they do today is code style changes!Indeed the libreoffice team wrote them a letter in 2020 about this:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/Libreoffice is so nice. I also use onlyoffice on my phone, and have liked it so far.
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I once failed a uni assignment, because the teachers assistant wrote remarks on a pdf in a way that's only viewable in adobe's products.
She failed us because "we ignored her remarks". Had no idea they were there.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ooh I would fucking LAY into her in the review if she did that, and cause a stink to the dean. That shit would've pissed me off so bad. I hate when people expect you to be telepathic like that.
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Wasn't .docx also supposed to be an open standard but M$ kept fucking with the implementation so it would only work in Office?
Yes, it technically is a standard, but because it's an ISO standard you have to pay for I wouldn't call it open. https://www.iso.org/standard/71691.html but people have different definitions of what an open standard is and I'm not trying to critique them.
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Okay, I just want to say I blame schools for Microsoft's monopoly on personal computing. School sysadmins are always dazzled by the shiny looking gifts that Microsoft gives them, ensuring the next generation of Microsoft useds is ready.
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Okay, I just want to say I blame schools for Microsoft's monopoly on personal computing. School sysadmins are always dazzled by the shiny looking gifts that Microsoft gives them, ensuring the next generation of Microsoft useds is ready.
Really?
They're almost universally Chromebooks and the Google suite for schools these days...
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Can't OpenOffice export to .docx?
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You should see the windows xp source code
The rapidly dwindling sanity of windows programmers as expressed through code comments
Certified classic
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just rename the file and submit it as a .docx, it's their fault
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Really?
They're almost universally Chromebooks and the Google suite for schools these days...
A couple years ago I interned for computer support at an elementary school in NYC. Most students had Chromebooks and Gsuite, K-2nd grade had iPads. Teachers had Lenovo laptops with Windows 10 and Office365.
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A couple years ago I interned for computer support at an elementary school in NYC. Most students had Chromebooks and Gsuite, K-2nd grade had iPads. Teachers had Lenovo laptops with Windows 10 and Office365.
...and until very recently, the discount for m365 was pretty neat, I gather.
Huh, that's interesting. I'm not aware of what my kids teachers have had to use for themselves (I think the highschool might be MS-based?), but the "client side" has always been in Gsuite for over a decade
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Ooh I would fucking LAY into her in the review if she did that, and cause a stink to the dean. That shit would've pissed me off so bad. I hate when people expect you to be telepathic like that.
To be honest she probably didn't even know that the comments were only visible to Adobe product readers, but that's still infuriating as hell
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*libre office
Yes. I know, it's more popular than open office but I've used open office for so long now I don't want to switch.
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OpenOffice
Dude that thing doesn't get a proper update since 2014, the most they do today is code style changes!Indeed the libreoffice team wrote them a letter in 2020 about this:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/Works great for any and all word processing and spreadsheet that I need.
I don't do that much of it anyway so I don't really need anything more than open office.
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Best thing I ever saw was an Italian cooking class that sent recipes as an ODT, and then 20 minutes later as a DOCX as an afterthought for the Americans.
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Everyone knows the only acceptable formats are .pdf and .tex, everything else should be shunned out of society.
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Really?
They're almost universally Chromebooks and the Google suite for schools these days...
yeah but that's fairly recent.
when i was in school in the late 90s it was all microsoft all the time. we had courses specifically on Microsoft^TM^ Word^TM^. that sort of indoctrination isn't visible in the workplace until the people going through it are old enough to work.
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Everyone knows the only acceptable formats are .pdf and .tex, everything else should be shunned out of society.
.tex is a source format, not a presentation format, and as such should not be valid in a submission field.
they should take .ps though.
