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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!usc!newshub.cts.com!dmcook From: dmcook@mozart.cts.com (David M. Cook) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 6 Feb 1997 20:36:29 GMT Organization: CTS Network Services Lines: 31 Message-ID: <slrn5fkg35.f5v.dmcook@mozart.cts.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> Reply-To: dmcook@cts.com NNTP-Posting-Host: psm157167.cts.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156795 comp.os.linux.networking:67595 comp.os.linux.setup:95958 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5919 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2359 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52125 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266278 On 6 Feb 1997 09:21:30 GMT, Robert Kaiser <rob@charlie.sysbe.sysgo.de> wrote: >Oh, come on! This just doesn't compare to WinWord. I was about to mention >Lyx which looks like a good start, but even that one doesn't compare. >There is also StarOffice which is said to be a good and complete office >suite. It's commercial on other OSes but free for Linux. The drawback >(and also the reason why I have not tried it) is that it requires >Motif 2.0, which is available for Linux, but not for free. You can get Motif for about $70, though. See www.cheapbytes.com. Redhat now has Applixware on sale for $200. If you have a student in your family it's only $80. There's a French (I think) product called Xclamation. I've haven't heard much about it, but even the multiuser license is very reasonable. At least 2 Java office suites are in the pipeline. If you *really* need a word processor under Linux, they're there. See http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapp2.html#word for more. >It's really a pity that there is in fact no good word processor under GPL. >If there had been one by the time Winword came out, maybe Micro$oft >would not be dominating the market the way they do these days. Most GPL software tends to be stuff that some programmer needed/wanted/had fun doing and wanted to share, so I guess that tells you something. Dave Cook