28-01-2003 22:20 micke bystr�m [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>Harry D.  Corsover sa:
>
>>>Actually I'm building a web based collaboration system for not 
>>>only text, but other media as well. It will be available as open source 
>>>for most people. It will also take most of 2003 to develop. ;)
>>
>>Sounds great. Again, on a practical level, most folks I know (who are not 
>>"into" computers, but just use them to get stuff done) would not be 
>>interested in, nor willing to use something like that when Word is 
>>already on their computers.
> Needless to say I thought, is that we of course will leave Word in the 
>dust as a collaboration tool. Also, most people that I know in the 
>university do not use Word for collaboration anyway. So they will be very 
>open for our way as it will be very user-centric and non-geeky logical 
>structure. We will work closely with real organisations to make sure we 
>implement what people want. Obviously we will need to be able to read 
>Wordfiles, but I'm not doing that part myself.
>
>Let me also say that Words efforts to be a layout tool, leaves us 
>laughing. It may be a decent word processor and all, but its layout 
>capabilities belong to the eighties. Acyuallt Appleworksa leaves it in 
>the dust already with its "put things where you want them" approach in 
>the graphics section. This is how we use Appleworks anyway. Not that it 
>hasn't its weaknesses too.
>

And all THIS happening in 'my'  string... ? If i had only known :-))

Cheerio,

Eric

Eric Geers
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3026 gt  Rotterdam
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