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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Tue Nov 24 16:47:55 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:42:37 -0700 (MST)
From: Patrick <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981124122902.lsumpter@bchgate.bchydro.bc.ca>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> > Well, some of this isn't quite fair. StarOffice is, itself, incredibly
> > bloated with it OWN web browser, email client, and newsreader. It WOULD
> > be nice if Netscape and StarDivision (and others, for that matter) made
[...]
> Well said! Yes, I'm flaming Star Office on linux-apps as well. I'm starting
> my own campaign: the Campaign Against Bloated Code (CABC?). To join, send $5 to:
Damn, my money loader is broken. I keep trying to push the bill into my
computer but it wont take it. Oh well...
> Yes, even my beloved emacs has a newsreader and mailreader. Yuk.
>
> Good point about the Modular Software, though. But isn't that what
> "plug-ins" are supposed to be doing in Netscape?
Actually, Netscape is bloated but it isn't due to wordprocessors and
spreadsheets and graphics design and the web stuff, but StarOffice is. I
do my email and browsing with Netscape (StarOffice just isn't very good
at browsing...and I haven't even tried mail or newsreading) because I
like to have all my closely related functions tightly bound...but it
could be done as plugins so that they could stand on their own as well as
gaining some form of integration. StarOffice doesn't really need those
functions but if some want it, it should be an installation choice rather
than a default, unchangable setup. It would be soooo much faster and
smaller if it didn't have the extra stuff glommed on (or in).
I have ONLY used the graphics and wordprocessing functions of SO. The
rest is useless to me. I'd like to dispense with it.
patrick
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