Re: [OT] WTB Staroffice


Subject: Re: [OT] WTB Staroffice
From: volz (volz@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 15:08:03 AKST


yessir:

sitting to close to the idjit box will get you a good dose of those
cathard-rays.

- Stnky Pete

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>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:11:25 -0900 (AKST)
>From: "Peter Q. Olsson" <olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu>
>Subject: Re: [OT] WTB Staroffice
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> Adam Elkins <i-robot@gci.net> writes:
>
>>
>>OpenOffice is free....
>>
>
>Yes, and free IS good. However, SO6 does several things OpenOffice does not.
>
>I also feel that for the nominal cost, (and it really is a nominal cost I
>believe) we should support developers of third-party software for Linux.
>Especially if it is not out of one's own pocket. Just
>MHO, but I think that in several ways, from the consumer's POV and from the
>vendor's POV, $ spent on staroffice is well spent.
>
> BEGIN RANT >>>>
>
>I am still trying to get over the fact that Adobe had a version of FrameMaker
>(which kicks the pants off of Office and clones) 99% operational for
linux-intel
>and THEN NEVER RELEASED IT!!! I used the beta version until the license
expired
>on 1/1/2000. I can't understand bringing a quality product that far and then
>dumping it, unless the heavy hand of M$ was at play! Instead I have to keep my
>old solaris box going so that I can run Frame. If fact I have to admit, I have
>even got a Windoz box largely for this purpose (and so I can deal with all the
>stupid attachments that gates-o-centric idjits attach to otherwise perfectly
>good email)
>
><<< END RANT
>
>Whew! that was cathardic. I feel better now...
>
>PQO
>
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