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Re: Bloatware (OT)
- To: Chen Shapira <chen(at-nospam)mercury.co.il>
- Subject: Re: Bloatware (OT)
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 25 Mar 2001 18:02:40 +0200
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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- In-Reply-To: Chen Shapira's message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:49:07 +0200"
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Chen Shapira <chen@mercury.co.il> writes:
> > 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...
>
> Does that goes under bloat or under bugs? :-)
As long as the contents you see are OK (and that's not always the
case) it goes under ... features. [Yes, I noticed the smiley].
The word "bug" does not exist in MicroSpeak. Last time I checked
the accepted term was "known issues". This goes under "gloat". ;-)
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
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