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Re: Star Office 5.0
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 06:39:57PM +0200, Itamar S.-T. wrote:
>Hashibon Adham wrote:
>
>> There is an option to get a free personal edition of Word Perfect by
>> Corel, go to www.corel.com, they have many penguins arround...
>
>Commercial software is evil. Even if it doesn't cost anything!
hear, hear
><RANT>
>So we have Corel Wordperfect 3.1 on our Macintoshs. It works fine. Then we
>upgrade to MacOS 8, and it can't print anymore, and it crashes every 15 minutes
>(and when I say 15 minutes, I mean 15 minutes). We upgrade to 3.5 (paying for
>the privilege) and now it prints, but crashes every 5 minutes. So we upgrade to
>3.5+(more money). Now it crashes just the same. Plus, a few weeks ago it got
>this new game where very file you save can't be reopened anymore - it claims
>that it's "locked". So we edit in 3.1, and print in 3.5. Macs are instable in
>general, but Wordperfect is the crappiest program I've ever used on a Mac.
></RANT>
I am using Wordperfect 3.5 [don't know about any 3.5+] on a 8.5 Mac
and printing to a laser printer over ethernet without problems.
>Notice how we had to pay in order to just get it to work. I'm not suggesting
>Corel will do this on Linux, but I'm going to avoid using it and wait for GWP
>or AbiWord.
Won't you try Wordperfect 8 for Linux for free? There is a copy on the
net.
>And I've spared you my NetObjects Fusion rant. RMS is right.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Usually except when he disagrees with Eric Raymond
alex