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Re: Star Office 5.0



Hi, 

I, my self use latex, including hebrew (my 126 page thesis for
example!!) nevertheless, i like these "little gadgets: like staroffice,
and i kind of like the idea behind it, making it exclusively free for the
linux community, programs like this should make linux more attractive for
novices and MS$ users. so it is not evil. 

I guess most of the trouble you are having are due to your MAC OS  not due
to Word Perfect, but isnt it a challange for Linux to prove that its a
much better OS by (also) running WP better... 

Regards,
adham






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Adham Hashibon
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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, 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!
> <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>
> 
> 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.
> 
> And I've spared you my NetObjects Fusion rant.  RMS is right.
> 
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