On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:44:21AM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: > > > > > Google docs is a good but not the best alternative. Google is > > > yet-another-corporate that even if more "public friendly", not a fully > > > M$-Office substitute. > > > > In other words: while an account at Google does not cost money,Google > > Docs is just as proprietary as MS-Office and Acrobat Reader[1]. I would not > > have wanted to be forced to have an account there in order to interact > > with school. > > > > [1] PDF itself is not bad as it has some other good alternatives > > implementations. However relying on in-line remarks in the PDF file, > > which is, AFAIK, supported only by the Adobe reader, is not a good idea. > > right, but don't forget that to in order to "read only" a document, you > don't need a google account - just a publicly readable document who's link > you've got, AFAIK. That's of course hardly a full solution but I'm going to > take it step by step. My daughter has yet to receive assignments so its > only about the weekly schedule documented distributed every week. While > using Google Docs to distribute it, the staff can become accustomed to > Google Docs and maybe even appreciate its comfortableness (the latter is a > NTH). At the same time, I'll have a more easier "marketing job" to do.
Are you interested in a read-only or read-write format? While it's your fight to pick and not mine, I'm not sure I'd be happy if a result would be the replacement of one proprietary format with another. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
