Charles A Edwards wrote:
>On 23 Jan 2002 19:44:55 +0100
>Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you and the app
>>>vendor are at having a standoff as to who is going to solve the
>>>problem and NEITHER of you care that the user is getting screwed
>>>in the equation. Now I really don't expect Corel to care whether
>>>the user gets screwed or not, but I somehow would expect more of
>>>Mandrake. Am I expecting too much here?
>>>
>>We're not talking about the same thing here. One thing is the
>>ethical/moral issue, another thing is user satisfaction. Of
>>course as a company our main goal is user satisfaction, yet
>>sometimes this aim clashes with another issue, and we can't say
>>that promoting free software is not deeply connected to user
>>satisfaction if you see it more globally.
>>
>
>If I can chip in here as just an average joe user.
>
>I own WP8 in both the Win and Linux versions, I like it as a wp and, in the
>past have used it often.
>
>But however you cut it WP8 is a commercial application.
>As such any resonsability for it maintance, portabilty, and futher development
>rest squarly on the shoulders of its developers.
>
>Now, Corel, the outstanding company which brought us the ground breaking
>and ever popular Corel Linux (tounge planted firmly in cheek) no longer supports
>WP8 in any shape, version or form and in viewing there website one might
>wonder if it ever existed.
>
>Am I bothered by this?
>Damn right!
>Do I feel that it should now be Mandrakes job to ensure that WP8 will run on
>each new version of Mandrake Linux?
>Oh, it might be nice, but no I do not expect them to do so.
>
>Just as once good hardware becomes old and obsolete and falls by the wayside
>so also does software.
>WP8 is now becoming another such causualty.
>
>There are now many other good/exellent wps available for linux and most
>are being constantly developed and maintained.
>
>If only WP will do then the choice is to spend the $s for WP Office.
>
>In a "perfect" world everything would always work and in dreams I at times
>stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying to get that gd nvidia
>driver mod to load.
>
>
> Charles
>
>
>Do not mourn for the dead, celebrate the living and life.
>
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Well I just had a need to generate business cards. My choices for that
(other than WP8) were glabels (an excellent little tool by the way) and
Open Office. I chose Open Office because it has better font and
formating capabilities. I was able to work around some bugs and correct
some others and come up with some fairly presentable business cards. As
good as those produced by WP8 any day. I hadn't used OO/SO for business
cards successfully before and was pleasantly surprised at the progress
they have made, so I guess I will be reformating all my cards via OO. I
just hope that OO will get up to speed with publishing capabilities
(does anyone know of any publishing apps that can produce two numbered
facing pages on a landscaped letter size sheet like WP8?). I would also
like to see them support postal bar codes. I currently own a copy of
WP2K, but have no intention of installing it due to the quirkiness of
Corel's crappy installer.
