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Re: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies

Subject: Re: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:01:07 -0700


Our engineering development and testing tools are Linux based, so
my writers work in Linux when they run product and generate data
for our documents. However, all of our company's finance and
marketing tools are Windows based, so we have access to both
platforms and could choose any authoring tool for either platform,
as long as it can generate PDFs. We remain in Windows because
of (a) inertia (we've already paid for the tools we have), and
(b) budget (we've already paid for the tools we have).

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: <rjstevenson -at- sprynet -dot- com>

That reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask about. How many of us are using Linux *as* tech writers, vs as home users, because it's neato, etc.? The places I've worked so far, even if the developers are on a *nix of some kind, the support staff (like us) are on Windows, and they want doc that works on it.



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