Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Content Format

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Mike Warren wrote:
> Bob Dodd <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > OK, you can encourage certain content formats, but you can't be too
> > prescriptive. We also have to live in the real world, where most of
> > our authors may be computer literate, but their idea of document
> > production is to use commercial tools (that often come "free" with
> > their PCs).
>
> I don't think we should accept proprietary formats at all, in keeping
> with the GNU project's goals. This eliminates Microsoft Word,
> obviously.

.. and RTF (for what it's worth).  I disagree with this for practical
reasons. Most people have access to MickeySoft products, and regardless of
how little some of us like them, they *are* pervasive, and I don't think
that what amounts to a religious doctrine (free or nothing) should get in
the way of the practical needs of receiving articles.

Paul