kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >[snip some advice]
> Notes: > > [1] At some point after I die, I *will* write the oft-promised essay > "The Office Suite is Dead". Meantime, suffice to say that the office > suite was created to solve a marketing problem -- selling software > people didn't want to compete with software they did want, by bundling > it with other software they also wanted. When software is free, this > marketing rationale is largely irrelevant. I think this is just one half of the "truth". I hate these dinosaurs too, favourite example Netscape Communicator. But NscComm and M$ software in general show, average users "want" "frames". It must look familiar, quality is no criterium to them. "They see" what the SW does, and this is obviously very persuading because they associate this with user-friendlyness. >[snip some vim note] I won't tell you what I said when me and Vi(m) first met and "I just wanted to enter text"... Note from my side: I promised "never" to use qutotation marks again ;) Andre
