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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:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axion -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:15:35 -0700
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:01 -0700, John Posada wrote:
> Bruce...how much OS software was there five years ago?
>
> > Nobody in this discussion has said that proprietary software will
> > disappear. However, the argument would be more convincing if the
> > last
> > five years hadn't already shown an increasing use of open source
> > software in businesses.
A considerable amount. It was more on the server side than the desktop,
though.
In fact, open source adaptation started about ten years ago. One of my
first jobs as a techwriter was documenting software that ran on
Slackware Linux -- and had been doing so for about a year before I
turned up on the scene.
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not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result
is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending
to say, but you also perceive that he does not say it.'
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