[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Bloatware (OT)
- To: guy keren <choo(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Subject: Re: Bloatware (OT)
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 25 Mar 2001 17:05:06 +0200
- Cc: Chen Shapira <chen(at-nospam)mercury.co.il>, <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: guy keren's message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:23:56 +0200 (EET)"
- Organization: Speaking for myself only.
- Original-Sender: ogoldshmidt@computer.org
- References: <Pine.GSU.4.30_heb2.09.0103251516210.6337-100000@actcom.co.il>
- Reply-To: ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org
- Sender: ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)comgates.co.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley)
guy keren <choo@actcom.co.il> writes:
> btw, i don't only see microsoft's products as bloated. the same goes for
> KDE, gnome and other graphic applications.
IMHO a lot depends on your modus operandi. It is very easy to accuse,
say, XEmacs of being bloated if you think in terms of starting a new
XEmacs to have a look at a couple of lines in a file (is there a
Windows tool that allows one to quickly look at a couple of lines in a
Word file, by the way, or is starting Word the only option?). If,
however, XEmacs is a major tool of your trade and you just start it
once when you log in, then opening a buffer or using gnuclient or
editclient as your $EDITOR is perferctly reasonable.
I do consider Word "bloatware" (well, I also think it's incredibly
buggy, but that is off-topic), but for a different reason. A 2 page
plain text document is quite likely to take 3 MB in my experience. Now
I need to send 2 of these to someone by email. What did his ISP
allocate him for his mailbox? 5 Meg? Oops...
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request@linux.org.il with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request@linux.org.il