TextMaker?

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 21:23:36 -0700
Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 24 May 2003 07:23 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Sounds great, but why give up old linux stalwarts like
> > openoffice? Openoffice (staroffice) is the only linux wordprocessor
> > I have used since day one. 
> 

Yes, OO has been quite adequate for my needs in reading/creating
documents in Off97 format for use by my daughter at her school.  As an
aside, since I had left my dual boot computer in gentoo mode with OO
running, she was even able to make corrections and print her document
without ever having used OO before!

> 
> >
> > If we linux users are so fickle that we quickly dump old friends for
> > the newest pretty face on the scene, we will not be seen as a very
> > desirable target audience for developers. Constantly looking for the
> > newest greatest thing instead of improving what already works seems
> > counterproductive. For example, it would be great if staroffice got
> > volunteers to improve its version of visual basic.
> 
> It would be great if staroffice would fix its version of visual basic 
> itself and I would pay for it (as I did for Star Office 5.2) when they
> 
> fixed it.  Frankly, I am not what I would consider quick to dump old 
> friends (I still use Quick Basic on my 9 year old ~030 processor 
> Macintosh) but if something works well on linux, I'm willing to give
> it a try.
> 
> >
> > And, openoffice does fine with excel spreadsheets.
> >
> > And, openoffice has been supported by a large corporation for years,
> > so the users have some hope that it will be around for years to
> > come.
> >
> > Joel
> 
> If it is a superior product and it improves, I think that the market
> and Linux users will support it.  I had mixed opinions about
> StarOffice (not the least of which was its size) and I'm willing to
> see what somebody new has to offer.  If the product from SoftMaker
> doesn't cut it, I won't continue to use it.  So far, they've done
> several things right.

My inital encounter with TextMaker and its provider was less than
sterling.  I downloaded the trial version, got the password email from
the provider, and tried it.  The password was not accepted, and when I
emailed the provider, my query went into a black hole.  That was 3 weeks
ago, and I've purged my system of their product.  If you can't even
reply to questions, your product is worthless.  Fortunately I can get
better response than that from this concerning free or
proprietary software - even the dreaded MicroCruft stuff.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo stable - ext3