Exactly. If you're selling a package of database, word processing and spreadsheet, you shouldn't have to rewrite your database programming to work with the Word Processor and Spreadsheet every few years.
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ted Roche <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] for all of you who hated/loved Office 2007 2010 is out in > preview mode > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 5:08 PM > 2009/7/15 Ricardo Aráoz <[email protected]>: > > > Go tell a vi user you will change the keyboard > shortcuts for another > > "better" layout, tell him all his hard won knowledge > will go down the > > drain in order to "improve" some little things. > > That would be ViM, Vi iMproved ! > > Nearly no one actually uses vi now (written, btw, by Bill > Joy who went > on to found SUN) > > But the point Ricardo is making is still true: thanks to > Open Source, > you could still choose to use vi if you wanted or needed > to, you > didn't have to upgrade to whatever the vendor is still > supporting. > > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
