| Arguing this is the exceptional case misses his point, I think. He is intelligent, eloquent, and absolutely correct. In _any_ field except "business letters and reports" there are numerous talented, creative people who use other software and understand his lament: "the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems." Some examples: ∙ Hard science research are the poster child where "Word slave labor" happens daily ∙ Math research, fortunately there's a lot the web can do but still the Word drudgery ∙ Engineering research ∙ Self-published and indie writers (Scrivener definitely has made a splash) ∙ Law Who cares? Well, if you want to make a lot of money, these people would throw their money at you if you could ease their pain a little bit. The publishers get a lot of bad press for other things they do (like Aaron Schwartz), but they're still wrong about MS Word being a publishing platform. |