From: Keith Smith (keith@ksmith.uucp)
Date: 11/10/92


From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux - the future?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:02:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.202550.13831@mo.hobby.nl> hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) writes:
>keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
>
[...]
>>don't mean niche work either. Visit 5 lawyers offices, and 5
>>accountants office at random in your area, and see what they are using
>>for Word Processing. Wanna take any wagers you won't find *ANY* that
>>are using roff or Tex? (Yea, I'm sure there are exceptions, but I'll
>>make the bet with anyone willing to roll the dice with the yellow pages.)
>
>I know of at least one law firm were they use GNU emacs and LaTeX.

I said *RANDOM* selection out of a phone book. Like start at A and work
your way down. I DID say there were exceptions but I'd bet less than
10% even have a *IX based system, and less than 1% would be using a Text
Processing System on ANY enviroment. People are generally lazy, and
don't want to learn this stuff, even if it is the best thing since
a post hole digger.

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