I get these all the time, in various levels of appreciation. I though it appropriate to share this particular one with everyone. To those of you who have contributed to the project, this is how you are regarded: >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:35:30 -0700 >From: Colin Mattoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9-19mdk i686) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: AbiWord > >This is a very nice word processor. It is hard for me to get used to >the idea that some of the very best software is entirely free. > >I've flown airplanes and I've used word processors. I wasn't much of a >pilot and I'm an incompetent computer user. But, I'm not completely >stupid and I don't see why word processors should be more difficult to >operate than an airplane. But that is what I confront when I try to use >Star Office or Corel Word Perfect. It's almost as bad as when I had >Windows 95 and Office 97 on my computer. > >Plus, AbiWord was easier for me to muddle through the download off the >Internet than the install of either Star Office or Corel Word Perfect >off a cdrom. I didn't bother to read up on how to put AbiWord in a KDE >menu or on a desktop icon -- and it doesn't bother me that your >installation doesn't automatically do that for me either -- that's the >sort of automatic window dressing that Office 97 and Star Office provide >instead of making their programs easy to use. > >And it works just fine. I didn't have a problem setting up my HP >Deskjet 560C with AbiWord because there was no set up to do. Star >Office prints 90% of each page on one piece of paper and the bottom of >the page on the next. When I try to change printer drivers to fix this, >Star Office won't let me. I have other printer problems when I use >Corel. Yours prints what I type, and it prints it the way I type it. >That's all I ever wanted the damned computer to do anyway. > >Their office suites look impressive, but yours works. Thanks. > >Colin Mattoon > > Robert Sievers Open Source Evangelist
