Slightly OT: Must Linux buy its way onto the desktop?

[Temlakos]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 18:41 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 
>>refusing to pay the MStax. (My wife has mixed feelings about that,
>>because we have no MS boxes in the house, and all her friends worry
>>that she isn't going to be able to open up the documents they want to
>>send her. Peer pressure.)
> 
> 
> The *cult* of Windows...
> 
> I wonder how often this problem *really* exists?  How many friends spend
> their time exchanging "documents", when all they really need to do is
> send text and/or pictures.  Even between two XP PCs, one's "doc" file
> mayn't be suitable for another PC; it's really only a format suitable
> for saving your own files for printing later on, on your own printer.
> Not to mention all the *problems* that tag along with sharing Windows
> files (viruses, malware, et al).
> 

The more reason to encourage people to export documents to PDF. Last I 
heard, even M$ had decided to support a PDF export.

Temlakos