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Re: Bloatware (OT)
- To: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Subject: Re: Bloatware (OT)
- From: Uri Bruck <bruck(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:45:11 +0200 (EET)
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- In-Reply-To: <m37l1dj3dp.fsf@erwin.comgates.co.il>
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On 25 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> 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,
Wordview - it's a freeware word file viewer that can be downloaded from
the MS site. (They started giving it away on the assumption that if more
people can read word files, than more people will have reason to write
them). The downside - no Hebrew support.
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