you still don't get it. Why must you welcome .doc AT ALL?
I've got an alternate interpretation for his statement -- I don't want to make document formats as a bottleneck for your submission since I care more about your skills than these things. Of course, I prefer plaintext since it's more readable.
this is not about what is ``professionally better or more convinient".
Do realize that everyone does not own a computer at home. Some do use
the internet cafe to satisfy their surfing needs and cafes and most cybercafes use Windows here in India.
If they are going to a cyber cafe to compose and post resumes on a windoxe system, downloading a windoze build of open office and then doing the same in a free as in freedom file format is not really a mountain climb. Will it take longer, and cost a little more - yes it will. If they are ``really" that eager to get a particular job, they will do what is necessary, anyone would. If the are given a specific format for a resume, they HAVE to stick to it, or forfeit. If they are still foolish enough not to do so or are in the habit of mass mailing their resumes without a second thought to what the job is actually about, would anyone want to hire such people at all?
I wonder why you concentrated on
the fact that he's welcomed the .doc format.
because i believe it is wrong to use it.
He's welcomed the .odt
format with equal 'vigour' as well hasn't he?
Does that imply he would embrace both free and proprietary software with equal vigor as well?
Zealotism
Is believing in something and following it Zealotism? Do you think i'll pelt stones at him or his company, just because he uses/considers .doc?
works well towards turning users away from FOSS rather than
attract them. You could probably have put it in a better way so as to get your point across without offending the other.
if you think there was a better way to do the same please do mention it. Anyway i don't think he is ever going to forget what some people out there think of .doc ;-) and will make it point to mention it to everybody he knows with or without some adjectives which i'd rather not mention :-)
If there is even one person who actually thinks.... ``i wonder why that lunatic on the list hated .doc so much?" if that person makes even an iota of effort to search for the reason. Its worth it. Because then you achieve something which is nothing short of creating history, and that is - making a person think about something they otherwise take for granted.
Regards,
- vihan