Rich Shepard wrote:
>    The greatest irony is that O'Reilly Associates (publishers of some of
>    the
> best UNIX/linux books) insists that their authors submit book text in MS
> Word! O'Reilly also sponsors OSCON (the Open Source Convention) and
> promotes open documents, too. So, why do they demand the use of a
> terrible, proprietary word processor when they can get camera-ready,
> typeset submittals as .tex files? Shrug. It's a real shame.

Even worse, O'Reilly are one of the powers behind DocBook!

Matej

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