[geeks] Re: "Word Processing" != productive use of one's time....

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 13:40:01 (-0400), joshua d boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] solaris 2.5.1/ppc cd found
>
> Yes, but staying with SCO still would have been superior to Windows (and
> in fact, they still use SCO for running Wordperfect).  Also, one windows
> server is better than windows everywhere.  And they mentioned that they
> are hoping to move to OpenOffice in a year or so, replacing the
> excel server, and the SCO wordperfect server.  Just waiting for the
> wordperfect filters to be 100%.  I thought it was quite
> interesting.  Myself, I use Gnumeric, and either emacs/latex or abiword,
> but I don't put either gnumeric or abiword, are so wouldn't be surprised
> if it wouldn't be good enough for power users like my parents.

In that light do you know what's really interesting?  "Word Processing",
as it has come to be in the "PC" (== "personal computer", i.e. including
MacOS and even KDE, OpenOffice, et al) world is terribly anti-productive
to what almost everyone tries to use it for.

Here's another VERY interesting and compelling article on the issue:

	http://www.cynic.net/~cjs/computer/writings/simplicity.html

Much the same can be said about modern spreadsheet programs too,
especially the ones that idiot lusers think they can do to do word
processing and other forms of document preparation with!  ;-)

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