Re: implications of GPL'd StarOffice


Subject: Re: implications of GPL'd StarOffice
From: Judith Harper (j.harper@internet.co.nz)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 15:50:49 CDT


Uncle Meat wrote

<CUT>

> PLEASE!!!!!!!! Don't create another office suite that has every imaginable
> feature that will never be used by the vast majority of users just so that
> we can have everything all in one package. We already have more than
enough
> of those! If more functionality is needed, make it modular (as in Siag),
> not as so many others (SO, koffice [kde period!] M$, offix, etc) have
> thrust upon us!
>

May I say AMEN and AMEN!! There seem to be lots of options out
there for those who want a multi- package. I was delighted to find Abiword
recently because it does offer just the basics.

Judith Harper
New Zealand



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