Subject: RE: Response to Bad Review [was Re: Fwd: not worth downloading]
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 19:52:41 CDT
alan> Some people just dont care about having access to the source.
alan> (Spyware, ha!) Some people just dont care about having a
alan> program that is incredibly cross platform. (If only the rest of
alan> Gnome Office was so enlightened) Some people dont care that the
alan> rest of the world does not speak the same language as them.
alan> Some people dont care about being able to import and export a
alan> plethora of file formats. (Being able to bring your old
alan> documents with you without having to convert them in some
alan> external program is a killer feature.) Some people dont
alan> appreciate a constistent and familiar interface (even if Abiword
alan> is to an extent mimicking the de facto standard) Some people are
alan> very harsh irrespective of the fact that a project is run
alan> entirely by volunteers and not for profit. Some people dont
alan> understand the pre version 1 softwafe is not perfect, and the
alan> odd version numbers indicate unstable unsupported releases.
alan> (Abiword is remarkably solid considering)
I think it is quite reasonable for a very large number of people not
to care about these things and in fact to have never given them much
thought at all. In fact, for the commonly-stated target user of
AbiWord, this is even more true. Most users use one computer in one
place in one locale, and they want apps that do various things in easy
ways.
You are, in effect, trying to point out extenuating cirumstances
rather than pointing out where the reviewer was factually wrong. "I
couldn't help chase my neighbor's cows because my leg was in a cast."
That may be true, but the neighbor's cows are still wandering on the
road.
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