Andreas Mohr Usenet 06/01 wrote:> gerard patel <g.patel@wanadoo.fr.invalid> wrote: >> On 21 Jun 2001 12:19:38 GMT, Andreas Mohr Usenet 06/01 >> <p4hivr001@sneakemail.com> wrote: >> <snip> >>>Word should really become an extinct species ASAP. >>>There's just no place in the "free" world for such a "tool". >>>That's my official opinion. Flame me, beat me, ignore me ;-) > >> Approve you completely ! > Oops, now THAT came completely unexpected :-) >Just wait until people start getting bills for the leasing of Word by the hour - Do you think some will wise up? I support myself as a CNE/MCSE type, because it pays the bills. However, at home it's FreeBSD for me (hee hee) 'cause I'm not going wherever M$ wants to go tommorrow. Cheers!
Andreas Mohr Usenet 06/01 wrote:> Right now at least Word 2000 is definitely not usable for "real" work. > And BTW, I don't even care about Word. I don't want to actively support > this binary incompatibility crap, so I definitely won't submit any fixes > for it. > If you need an office tool, use either Open(Star)Office (which is said to > get better and better) or KOffice or AbiWord or whatever. > Or, much better (for typesetting), use LaTeX. > > Word should really become an extinct species ASAP. > There's just no place in the "free" world for such a "tool". > That's my official opinion. Flame me, beat me, ignore me ;-) >Yea! JRT
Andreas Mohr Usenet 06/01 wrote:> > gerard patel <g.patel@wanadoo.fr.invalid> wrote: > > On 21 Jun 2001 12:19:38 GMT, Andreas Mohr Usenet 06/01 > > <p4hivr001@sneakemail.com> wrote: > > <snip> > >>Word should really become an extinct species ASAP. > >>There's just no place in the "free" world for such a "tool". > >>That's my official opinion. Flame me, beat me, ignore me ;-) > > > Approve you completely ! > Oops, now THAT came completely unexpected :-) >I certainly agree that we do not need M$ Word, and I am going to start using one or more of the 'free' office suites and try to learn Tex. But, business will want to use a commercial product [no I don't know why] (Isn't Open Office a commercial product??). So, will WINE development focus on getting WordPerfect Office and/or Lotus Smart Suite to run on WINE? Getting one of them 100% functional would be a major milestone. JRT