John Boyle wrote: > ... What I CANNOT understand is WHY this constant and continual > upgrade, upgrade, when all that is needed is simple changes to improve > what is NOW a BASICALLY sound program!
> So, I went to WordPerfect, but ... WordPerfect also lost to bundling. You could buy WP for $199 and Quattro for an additional $199 or MS Word plus Excel for the same price. > .... Marketing is the ONLY thing that MSFT does well, Bzzt. Thanks for playing. Marketing and lobbying are outsourced. > ... that and thievery of other people's ideas!Oh, that's right, not > thievery, muscle them into submission is more like it! That's been documented again and again. The courts, the police and even the military have failed to effect action. > There was a company or group working on another clone or modification of > Windows, but so far they are not a viable alternative to WINDOWS! Windows was a copy of GEM, Desqview and Macintosh. NeXT was several decades ahead. > ... abandining of Both OS/2 MS apparently owns part of OS / 2, having co-developed it, so unless their part of the code is removed and re-written , OS/2 is dependent on its main competitor. MS was also contracted to make applications for OS / 2 and pulled out to work on NT, but apparently notified IBM only just before ship date... > The ONLY real alternative to WINDOWS is Linux ... Or OS X or Solaris or FreeBSD, etc. The OEMs, if left alone could choose what they want. If anyone wants to counter about how hard the non-linux or non-OS X alternatives are, they are cordially invited to STFU. OEMs set up a disk image and then clone it. Installation is never an issue for the end user. > will never overcome MSFT with all the different "distro's" cutting each > other's throats and then cutting their own, by constant upgrade, upgrade > and then more upgrade! The only distro throat cutting is by Novell, of its own throat. Any distro can be made to look like any other. Pre-installation on off-the-shelf models is what's lacking -- still. John, you've had a long rant. Now what specifically in the current OOo UI or application needs fixing according to you? -Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
