On 8/8/06, Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why stop there? Why not merge every application into one almighty mega-application? Screw independence and individuality. One application to rule them all!
You are absolutely right. I've been so blind. In fact, instead of adding to OpenOffice.org - let's bust it up. Let's make it were you have to download Writer, then Calc, then Impress, then Draw, then Math, the Base.... Of course, since most of the code is shared, you'd be downloading the same 30 - 40 MB of code each time - but, at least you'd have a choice! But why stop there? Maybe I just want Writer, but I don't want spell check - spell check should be it's own download. That way people have more of a choice. We should make the GUI it's own download. And the word count. And the indent button. And mail merge. I don't use mail merge. Why should I be forced to download something I am not going to use? It's crazy. We should have a line-item veto. We should be able to CHOOSE which lines of code to download and which lines not to. Oh, you might think I could do that by just downloading the source and stripping out the lines I don't want. But that's not true. Because I'd have to download the *whole* source code before I could do that. Heck, why stop at lines? I should be able to only download the 0s of the binary if I wanted. Or every third 1. ... In case you missed it - that is called sarcasm. Bundling isn't evil. It makes sense. I have OpenOffice.org *and* AbiWord. That's a choice. Sometimes, it's faster to use AbiWord for quick editing, because it loads a lot faster and has a cleaner interface. It also has less features, so when I want to do some in depth editing, I fire up Writer. I have a choice. OpenOffice.org including a word processor in no way stopped me from being able to download, install, or use AbiWord. Having OpenOffice.org + Firefox wouldn't stop people from using Internet Explorer, or Opera, or Netscape, or Safari, or Konqueror. Adding features doesn't take away choice. How can any sane person not see that? By adding an OpenOffice.org Mail or OpenOffice.org Browser - we are *ADDING TO* the choices people can make. Right now, I can't choose OpenOffice.org Mail - because it doesn't exist. By not having OOo Mail - a choice is taken away. How do you not get that? -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ http://www.chadwsmith.com/
