Subject:
Re: [discuss] My brilliant idea, that I had, will revolutionise
everything - completely.
From:
Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:47:29 -0700 (MST)
To:
[email protected]
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I see that the next step in the evolution of this product - the
office suite, is
to remove the "limited multifunction's" approach and to step into a
universal
full functionality approach.
I really want the universal full functionality - of all the programs,
written
into the ONE program.
That's the Windows approach. Windows users have become used to having
their choices made for them. The Unix/Linux philosophy is several
small programs, each specializing in one function without compromising.
BTW, just which of these programs would you like to see integrated
into the suite? Your choices may (probably wouldn't) be mine and vice
verse.
--
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free
lunch, check the price of the beer!"
Many years ago I used Netscape suite which had mail program, whiteboard,
browser, and other stuff included. It had gone from a small very fast
browser to a slow "do nothing well' megalith. When Mozilla first came
out with their new browser, Phoenix, I switched to it as it was small,
fast and easy to add features I wanted and ignore the ones I didn't
want. Yes, Mozilla has the suite which contains the browser, mail
client, calendar, and lord know what else, and I refuse to use it. Now
Mozilla is bogging down Firefox with all kinds of new "features" which
are woven in the browser, no way to eliminate them. They have taken a
good thing and made it klunky and junky, and I see no positive value in
their new release, 3.0. I'm now looking for a new browser with fewer
features.
By the same token I see no reason to junk up OO.o with more bells and
whistles. If I want to include something from a spreadsheet into my word
processing document, I can copy it over. We used to have an expression
for the kind of stuff you want, "Jack of all trades, master of none!"
That is as true for software as it is about people. Just give me The
GIMP and never mind putting some lame add on to OO.o to do graphics.
Writing "one program with full functionality" is equivalent to what MS
did with OS2. A lot of everything but nothing worked right. At present I
have about 70 different programs on my computer because each of them
does something which none of the others does or which none of the others
does as well. A part of this is a function of the way I work with my
computer. You don't do things the way I do and what you want to do or
how you do it is not the way I do it. I'm all for a multiplicity of
small programs/modules which do their own thing the way I want.
Please leave OO.o alone as I liked it the way it is. And yes, I grew up
with UNIX/XENIX and I love the two million little modules which could be
strung together to build what you wanted to build and do it the way you
wanted it to do.
On the one hand you guys are screaming for software to work on your cell
phones and on the other hand you want them to do everything? Sorry, it
doesn't work thataway.
Michael
--
Michael
Columbia, SC
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