[wellylug] TradeMe Linux jobs

Bruce Hoult bruce at hoult.org
Sun Jun 29 15:09:50 NZST 2008


On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Pete Black <pete at marchingcubes.com> wrote:
> Can someone explain why using Word displays lack of clue?

Using Word yourself is a perfectly fine thing to do. It's an excellent
piece of software (especially if you don't run it on Windows).

Using it to distribute finished (not collaborative) documents to
others shows lack of clue, for all sorts of reasons:

- it requires the other to have proprietary software, capable of
reading a secret document format.

- even if they have Word themselves, it is entirely likely that your
careful formatting and choice of fonts will be destroyed.

- there is no reason for someone else to have an (easily) editable
copy of your document, especially a CV.  If they think, for example,
that it would be better for it to be customized for a particular job
application (which of course it should be) then they should
communicate the ways in which it should be modified to *you*, not take
it upon themselves to butcher it.



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