[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:55:16AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> > PowerPoint: because you want *your* endeavour to go as well as the war
> > in Iraq! ;)
> 
> Somewhat sort-relevent:
> 
> A friend of mine who works for Boeing says that the US DoD's most
> critical tool is Powerpoint :)
> 
> Without it, you have no hope of getting a product approved and any and
> all information transfer is based upon this single 'simple' tool

I worked for (actually, consulted for) a company like that.  It was
all this and that "Powerpoint stack" as they referred to the files
shuttled backwards and forwards by email.  Multi-megabyte files which
took tens of seconds to open, were horrible to read (let alone edit),
and each one contained perhaps a few hundred words.  They could much
more easily have had reasoned discussions by email, although that
would have required the managers to engage in reasoned thought on the
subjects under discussion.

Rich.

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