Star Office 7

[dep]

quoth Joel Hammer:

| I have come to the conclusion that my time is worth something. I am
| now 57, and have only about 5 to 10 years before I get too old to
| bother much with computers. So, saving time is becoming more
| important than politics. I am also of the opinion, at least for now,
| that the open source movement just will not be able to deliver the
| ease of use of commerical software. What volunteer programmer is
| going to knock himself out for hours so some lazy non-paying user can
| have a trouble free software experience? Too often, open source means
| take it or leave it, blemishes included. I have gotten tired of that.
| I tip generously at restaurants for good service, so I can't see why
| I shouldn't pay someone who writes software which saves my time. And,
| certainly, $30 bucks for a competent suite like Star Office is a
| bargain. I feel good about supporting both Sun and Lindows, too.

well, except for the part about being 57, which i guess i hope oneday to 
be able to say, though i'd just as soon the clock run backwards for 30 
years or so, i agree with you. that's why i am so entirely comfortable 
with textmaker, which is not free, not open source, but is blisteringly 
fast and very, very stable and powerful. i've done three book proposals 
with it so far and a load of magazine pieces. i've been *really* 
unimpressed with openoffice, to the extent of toying with trying to 
reload staroffice 5.2 -- i use it when i use it for its really good 
graphics suite, which is all but absent from openoffice.
-- 
dep

Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever.