The world has 2 kinds of designers.
One is the producer who is committed to the profit, and the second is
committed to the product.
Microsoft seems to be committed to the profit. Every incomplete
product has cost the public $100 or more, and has been incomplete.
There have been releases which were incompatible with the previous
release, or other products.
Open Office is being developed by skilled programmers, and is
committed to an evolution in quality and proper operation. The
evolution is not interrupted by basic errors in programming, or
corporate decisions which are meant to isolate the evolution steps
with that force one to upgrade to continue using the software. It is
OPEN. It is widely integratable, by virtue of accepting several
formats. It is still growing. It runs on many platforms. It is
fine software, and operates like it should. Like we all wish each
software package would.
Charles Reintzel
On Oct 24, 2005, at 2:22 PM, John P Wohlscheid wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:
First off I would like to clarify something. I'm biased towards
Microsoft
products since they are the only things I have ever used. I looked
at the
screenshots of your products out of curiosity and I was surprised
how much
they look like Microsoft products. I understand that you want to
make it
easy so that the few people the convert from Microsoft products
will not have
trouble using yours, but in my opinion you should try to give your
products a
different look. Let me phrase it another way. Let's pretend that
there are
two cars. They look a lot alike, except that one has been around
for years;
it is trusted, and owned by hundreds of thousands of people. If a
middle-aged man was shown the two cars and it was proven that they
looked and
felt the same, he would probably buy the older one because of looks
were the
same, but the older one had more experience behind its
manufacturing. My
advice (one man's opinion) is come out with a new look and feel to
your
products. If you have a better product and a different feel, I
would saw
that people would switch to you. Again, this is just one man's
opinion.
God Bless,
John Paul Wohlscheid
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