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I thought if there was *anywhere* I could expect that proposals wouldn't come in #Microsoft Word format, it'd be a !FOSDEM DevRoom. WRONG!
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@bkuhn In my work at the university computer science department I rarely see .doc files. And if I do it's typically from administration.
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@bkuhn these are the same motherfuckers that turn up to FS/OSS events running Macbooks with OSX.
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@bkuhn Possible explination: #LibreOffice configured save as .doc[x] by default because they have to interface with non-FaiF folks often.
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@x1101 I sometimes save LibreOffice documents in .doc or .docx format because at least some versions of MS Word apparently don't read .odt
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For those who don't know, legal profession since ~1996 has been almost entirely dependent on use of MS Word (it was WordPerfect before then)
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@bkuhn To be fair, the case you are talking about involved academics at a European law faculty.
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@bkuhn since there are some cloudy/devopsy devrooms this year I'm sure you'll see a fair number of MacBooks
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@fontana I thought it was about a decade later. I remember reading about various courts transitioning document file formats.
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@fontana your profession is silly insofar as it depends on a word processor file format.
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@lnxwalt280 transition to MS Word from WP coincided with mass upgrade to Windows 95 (previously law firms typically had MSDOS-running PCs)
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@nds elaborate third-party proprietary add-ons for enhanced "redlining" and version control were also relevant factors.
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@fontana Oh, I see. Maybe some states/circuits were late. I was reading about it in the past 8 years, and it seemed fairly contemporaneous.
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@fontana Now if they used LaTeX and Unix they would not need make drastic changes every few decades.
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org-mode & git #notatroll
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@fontana, Aren't law faculty also lawyers? Academic lawyers, of course, but lawyers nonetheless.
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@bkuhn real AAPL servers do not exist, since nearly 2 years. What's more interesting is AAPL not tending to "creative workstation" market.
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@bkuhn i see that too. I find it sad, and leading me to agree with you about #SoftwareFreedom dark ages to come
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Apple are following the money to the consumer market and abandoning power users & creative sector...
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@bkuhn if we're talking about Europe, I'm not sure. Even in the US, some law school academics have never practiced law.
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@bkuhn Clearly a vast number of developers and brogrammers and devops people see no contradiction there.
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@fontana, I suspect such people don't believe in software freedom: from their perspective, Free Software is just another vendor to deal with
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