Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 03:25 pm

Randy Howard wrote:

> Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 
> 
>> BTW I was talking to a soil expert last night at a meeting in London
>> regarding so-called Third World development, and it became evident that
>> we would need to communicate further in the near future. She specifically
>> asked me (without any prompting!) not to send her any Word docs, since
>> she was a Linux user and thus, whilst reading Word docs was usually (but
>> not always) /possible/, it was a bit of a nuisance.
> 
> Strange.  If she knows enough to run Linux, then she should be
> capable of opening a word doc.  :-)

And so she is, as I indicated above.


> I, unlike you apparently, would prefer a PDF or plain text to
> HTML.

Oh, plain text is even better than HTML. If that's an option, I'll take it.


> I'm officially sworn off of Microsoft anything from here on out.

Very sensible.


> However, if someone wants a .doc file, I'll be happy to
> send them one, without using any MS product in the process.

Yes, I've used the .doc extension to mean "documentation" (in text format!) 
for many years. So I have no problem sending .doc files /to/ people!

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Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
mail: rjh at above domain

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