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From: no_junk_email@nauplius.east.sun.com (Nils Nieuwejaar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 7 Feb 1997 18:47:24 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - HPC
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Frederick Haab <@efx7.turner.com> wrote:
>Nils Nieuwejaar wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> WordPerfect ($250 bundled with Motif, $165 if you're a student).
>> Applixware ($199 for a whole Linux suite, $79 if you are a student).
>> Corel's Java Office Suite (I don't think they've announce a price yet,
>>     but the beta is available for downloading at their web site.)
>> Get Wabi from Caldera, and run your favorite win16 word processor.
>> 
>> In any case, if all you want to do is word processing, you don't need
>> Unix.
>
>Nils wasn't replying to me, but someone else, but I
>wanted to take the opportunity to reiterate a sentiment I
>expressed in another message.

[ 40 lines to say "I want a word processor for Unix, and I don't want to
  pay more than $100" ]

So use the word processor in StarOffice - free for non-commercial use
under Linux.  Or use a DOS word processor in DOSEMU.

>Why do so many people want to limit the uses of Unix? 

I don't want to limit its uses.  However, at this moment it is not the
most appropriate platform for many people.  

> I am getting sick of this snobbery people have about using this
>O.S., "if your not willing to learn everything about the
>O.S., man,  you shouldn't be using it, man!", that's crap! 

Thank you so much for putting words in my mouth.  I hope you aren't using
a laptop, since jerking your knee so rapidly and forcefully could easily
send it flying.

Now, kindly point out to me where I accused him of being unwilling to
learn about Linux.  He asked for a piece of software, I listed several
options for Linux.  Given that that word processors are more widely
available and cheaper on other operating systems, wouldn't it make sense
to use those operating systems if all he's going to do is word
processing?

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