>WordPerfect just sucks. I downloaded it yesterday to try it out. I
learned
>never to intall proprietary software again.
Once upon a time, while our beloved Linus was yet wearing diapers, there
was an operating system called CP/M. The wonderful WordStar ran on CP/M.
Ah, those were the days... CP/M thence begat DOS, and WordStar saw CP/M
begin to die, and thus moved to DOS. Then one salty day in Utah,
WordPerfect was born.
Little did Billy Gates know who he was speaking to when he declared Word
the greatest. The Great King WordPerfect looked lowly upon the newcomer
who referred to himself simply as Word, and declared, "You suck!" And it
was so.
When DOS begat Windows, WordPerfect saw DOS begin to die, and moved to
Windows. From thence over the great salty flats came the one who spoke the
strange tongue of the IPX. The odd one had mucho moola, and said to the
WordPerfect, "you are now mine!" And it was so.
The strange one who spoke the IPX could not understand Billy Gates as he
spoke his native NetBEUI, and was not able to sell his WordPerfect. In the
tongue that was now understood by all from the sword's might, Billy Gates
was able to sell his lowly Word as it appeared to be all that there was in
the known world. And so the one who spoke the IPX could not sell
WordPerfect, and instead was greeted by a frosty one who claimed to come
from a barren, socially progressive land. The frosty one said, "Would you
be mine, eh?" And it was so.
>From its perch high upon the world's largest icepik, the frosty one was
able to see on the horizon the death of Windows in the pale face of a
young Penguin. And so he moved WordPerfect to the place from whence the
Penguin said he came. And the Penguin said, "gott sum beeer?" The
WordPerfect looked oddly at him, then said, "You mean, 'got some beer?'
eh?" And the Penguin looked back at him even more oddly than the
WordPerfect could have imagined and said, "You're pretty cool. What say
you pay off my student loans and then we go and take over the world
together?"
WordPerfect just smiled a knowing smile at the Penguin, and said, "Eh?"
>It looks ugly and Motify (I know some people who actually like how motif
>looks but I fail to understand them). It has lots of useless features
like
>automatic corrections as you type. It has a dirty license (wp was the
only
>binary on my machine other than netscape that is not free (RMS style
>free)). For some reason, the backspace key does not work for me, my only
>way to delete text is to go to the beginning of the section to delete and
>hold down the delete key (by the way, i never agreed with the pc
>convention of naming the delete key backspace. On the mac I am sitting
>at, there are two delete keys, one that is the pc equivilent of
>backspace and another that is only there for pc compatibility. the first
>time someone asked me where the backspace key was on my computer i
>thought he was refering to the left arrow :). WordPerfect wanted
>me to be root to modify any settings, hardly an elegant or safe aproach.
-Ok, so Motif looks ugly. Maybe the Lesstif people should be shot then,
right?
-Laziness is the greatest mother an invention can have. Spel badli, aht
foor o'click in teh murnong, on a beig phukeng turm papr, adn ti fixis it.
-Realize that commercial software is not perfect, but if *someone* ain't
making the cash to fund us, then we'll all be very soon visited by the
Student Loan Reposessions Agency. That would be bad.
-Ok, look bud, if you can't even figure out how to rebind your key codes,
why the hell are you running a dev kernel? ...or *any* kernel whose name
starts with an L, has an INU in the middle, and an X at the end?
>If anyone is looking for a _GOOD_ word processor that is free of dirty
>licenses and doesnt take 60 megabytes on your hard disk, check out
>http://www.abisource.com for information about AbiWord, a GPL'd, GTK
based
>word processor in
>development.
Sure, I love explaining to my potential employers about how my resume is
plain, simply, and devoid of dirtily licensed formatting.
Nothing against new development on the forefront of usability, but when
you just can't seem to find that good old IBM Selectric, not doing your
typing at all is a little bit past overkill... and rather on the stupid
side.
>Oh yes, and did I forget to mention that NerdPerfect feels and acts like
a
>windoze application? Not only does it resemble the look and feel of
>office, but as it is quoted below, WordPerfect was a bit scared to
>install onto a newer OS than was currently available at ship time. That
>doesn't seem to work too well when Alan Cox is releasing a new patch
>every day. I am not suprized that the author of the review was
>running KDE, he obviously does not care about windows-likeness or how
much
>freedom the license grants him. (He also says he was running netscape ...
>which is also not free)
Did I forget to mention that WordPerfect WAS a Windows application? Gee...
do ya think that maybe, just *maybe* it was a lot of effort to get the
code base to even _compile_ under Linux? Gosh, perhaps it was.
Methinks that releasing a major commercial word processor compiled on a
machine running kernel 2.1.41 would be a bad idea. Oh, wait, here's a good
solution: they should just release a new 23 MB download every other day to
keep up with Linus and Alan as they change the kernel's inner workings and
fundamental interfaces!
>Well until AbiWord is stable enough for everyday use, I'm sticking with
>emacs :-)
And until emacs becomes easy to use for normal people, I'm sticking with
vi.
Yours Truly,
Aaron Stone
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Prasanth Kumar wrote:
>>
>> > Now my biggest surprize was when I ran it...It takes only 2 seconds
to
>> > startup the program on my computer! Understand that my computer is a
>> > mere 166Mhz Pentium with 64MB memory and I am running KDE and
Netscape
>> > at the same time! The
>>
>> Same here. I am impressed enough with the download version that I am
>> buying the complete version tomarrow. It also works just fine with
>> the 2.1.131 kernel. It did report at install that the product was not
>> "certified" for 2.1.131 and asked if I wanted to continue anyway. I
said
>> yes and it when on its happy way. I am sending some money to Corel in
the
>> morning.
>>
>>
>>
>> George Bonser
>>
>> The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near
you!
>>
>>
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