[H-GEN] Sad day for Linux

[Trent WADDINGTON]

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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Paul Gearon wrote:

> The release of StarOffice made life on Linux suddenly a LOT better for me
> (Applix was just a little painful on occasion, and Word Perfect had
> problems as well, not to mention the lack of a spreadsheet).  Hardware
> manufacturers have started supporting Linux directly as well, which again
> is a major boon.  Then we have the Games support which is starting to come
> through (albeit slowly).

StarOffice (or more precisely OpenOffice) has made my life a living hell.
People feel absolutely no quarms about sending me xls and doc files
anymore.  They insist that I start up OpenOffice to read/edit them and so
every now and then I get to use the entire 96 meg on my computer + the 256
meg swap to run a single application.

Trent


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