Ethics: A Powerful Stumbling Block!
A few years ago, after hearing about how manipulative and unprincipled Microsoft is, I decided, when buying my new computer, to get Word Perfect instead of MS Word. Bill Gates may take over the planet, I reasoned, but he won't be doing it with my money!
Now that I have a book proposal to send out, it turns out that the only format that any agent or publisher will take seems to be Microsoft Word. So I have to retranslate everything I've written into The Language Of Evil. *Sigh.* I thought the prospect of a monetary advance would sweeten the experience, but I can still smell the Sellout on my clothes.
Now that I have a book proposal to send out, it turns out that the only format that any agent or publisher will take seems to be Microsoft Word. So I have to retranslate everything I've written into The Language Of Evil. *Sigh.* I thought the prospect of a monetary advance would sweeten the experience, but I can still smell the Sellout on my clothes.
Labels: Dave Update
posted by Cowboy Dave Dickerson | 7:04 AM
2 Comments:
And why did you get a Macintosh, pray tell?
We even have Microsoft Office (formats exactly the same as the Windows version) and now that they're running on Intel chips you can even run Windows.
(I won't rest until I've converted the world! Glory be unto Steve Jobs!)
I stopped worrying about Bill Gates taking over the world and learned to love his philanthropy.
I figure I'm curing malaria by using Microsoft Word.
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