6 May
2002
6 May
'02
1:16 p.m.
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
A hell of a lot less than it costs to do that in Windows. Yes, Dick,
I know you only paid $3 for Windows XP and Works 2000. I paid less than
that for the same functionality. We're talking list-price-against-list,
or going-rate-against-going-rate. NOT your-finds-against-list-price.
OpenOffice v1.0 was just released. That's the OpenSource (free, to
you) follow-on to StarOffice 6.0. IOW, all the above for all the above
OS's for $0. MS-format compatible documents, spreadsheets, and
presentation app. Plus a lot more.
Most Linux distributions come with gnumeric (Excel-compatible
spreadsheet), several WYSIWYG text editors, and a multitude of database
systems.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James B. DiGriz" <jbdigriz(a)dragonsweb.org>
Anyone who can
install Windows
out of the box can just as easily install Solaris or Redhat or OS/X or
whatever and go straight to work on spreadsheets, documents, databases,
or whatever with as much ease, if not more, as with Windows.
Perhaps, but at what cost? (retail prices, since not everybody wants to go
dumpster diving for hardware/software?) Well, I'd be last to deny that Windows is a pain
in the glueteus maximus, but
if there were anything better, or even remotely comparable, for the "typical"
home user, don't you think someone would think to mention it?
As in "get a clue"? You can lead a horse to water....
Doc