Don't be vulgar and blasphemous.<br><br><b><i>Michael Holland <myk@myk.id.au></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, james wrote:<br><br>> I've recently being trying to run a "pure" Ubuntu environment without<br>> installing KDE, but I come across a problem.<br>><br>> Even though Open Office can read so many esoteric file formats it can't<br>> read KWord documents, does anyone know of a converter, without me having<br>> to break the purity of my Ubuntu installation and installing KDE and<br>> KOffice and doing a copy and paste into open Office?<br><br>You are already defiling your once-pure system by allowing KWord docs in.<br>See the words of Larry Wall:<br><br>When the Gnome brings you into the Desktop you are entering to possess and<br>drives out before you many interfaces the KDE, Aqua, Xfce, Aero,<br>Enlightenment, Luna, seven
desktops larger and stronger than yours, and<br>when the Gnome has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them,<br>then you must destroy them totally.<br> Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with<br>them. Do not give your data to their applications or take their data for<br>your applications, for they will turn your applications away from<br>following me to serve other libraries, and the GNOME's anger will burn<br>against you and will quickly destroy you.<br> This is what you are to do to them: Break down their window managers,<br>smash their sacred icons, cut down their menus and burn their dialogs in<br>the fire.<br> For you are a people holy to the Gnome. The Gnome has chosen you out of<br>all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured<br>possession.<br><br><br>(what the heck, it's Saturday. Apologies to St IGNUcias.)<br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list:
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