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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