We often see job advertisements asking profile only in .doc format. It is a myth that .doc files or MS Word files are portable. MS has many versions of MS Word. And they keep on changing format. So document written in MS word 97 may not appear same as we had formatted it, since companies use updated(!) versions of MS Office.
Just to apply for a job do we have to update our MS Office and pay huge sum to MS! So what do we do. Assume those companies as sick and send them flowers! Nope start sending them resumes in .txt or .pdf files. Or give them a link pointing out your profile kept on your homepage. Its hard to take first steps but it always pays richer dividends in long run.
Gandhigiri zindabad
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
GNU Gandhigiri
Today suddenly this idea flashed to me. Gandhigiri as shown im LRM is about educating people by cleaning floors etc. But GNU gandhigiri is different. It is all about educating people about the evil called patent and proprietary software. An idea can come to any one. If some one gets an idea and he implements it. But there are people who can implement it in better way. And more over everyone can implement that idea according to their taste. Then why patent it. Free is better. Expect blogs on GNU in Gandhian vision.
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