His trouble seems to be not with LaTeX, but with materialism. No matter what medium he put his texts down in, will he find that the text is somewhat bound to th

His trouble seems to be not with LaTeX, but with materialism. No matter what medium he put his texts down in, will he find that the text is somewhat bound to that medium now and it'll take work to modify and/or transfer it. Pen and paper is "proprietary" in this line of thinking.