RE: # Frame Users

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com [mailto:jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com]
> Sent: June 16, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: # Frame Users
> 
> 
> 
> I think it's funny how often someone will innocently ask a 
> simple question
> and receive posts that berate the person for asking the 
> question in the
> first place. The question was, How many tech writers use 
> FM--not, Should I
> use a number of FM users to convince my management to let ME use FM?
> Sheesh...why is it we can't provide a simple answer to a 
> simple question?

The trick, of course, would be finding somebody who actually 
HAS an answer to that question. Both Adobe and Microsoft can 
tell you how many of their respective licenses are out there, 
but they can't readily tell you how many are being used by 
people who consider themselves (and are considered by their 
employers, one assumes... :-) to be techwriters.

I use FM by choice, Word when I must, and I keep poking at 
OpenOffice.org in hopes of switching over.  So far, as much 
as I'm having fun with OOo, and as much as it'll be free 
when I do switch, I'm staying with FM cuz it's so much more 
complete, efficient, and fluid to use for my purposes... so far....

But, OOo gets improved due to user participation, every time 
I turn around.  I'm thinking that it won't be long before 
I finally pull the plug on good ole FM.

Truth be told, I'm sure I don't use most of the power of FM, 
and even less of the power of Word, so they don't need to d
uplicate the entire function set of either one in OOo.

/kevin

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