Re: WP 8 problem
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 22:53 +0000, Charles Collicutt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it
> > rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for.
>
> Paid nothing for?! We have per minute phone bills here - downloading
> something that big which turns out not to be "fully functional" at all is
> in fact a waste of money. Downloading large files over a pretty slow
> connection with per minute phone bills is not my idea of fun - at least I
> get some compensation if the program is worth it...
> It's not so much the fact that I don't like WP - in fact I think it is a
> good quality product - it's that it wasn't obvious that it would not be
> fully functional and I decided to spend my time online downloading it as I
> believed I'd be getting a good, truly fully functional package (which,
> incidentally, I do get from StarOffice).
Yes, I unfortunatly have to pay the extortionate p/m costs too, but even so I
found the ~4 quid I paid for WP well worth it. OK, so it's lacking a couple of
non-vital features. As I said in my previous post it is a tad crap that they
didn't mention the lacking features. And, notice who your money went to: Not
to Corel, but to BT. I think your complaints would be far better directed at
those greedy, stingy, incompetent nincompoops (good word that :) After all, it
does exactly what it says it says on the box - it processes words, and damn
well too as far as I can tell. And to say it isn't fully functional is an
exaggeration and over-dramatisation of epic proportions (no doubt caused by
irritation at BTs excellent, ahem, service ;) Remember also that as free
editors go it kicks the living shit out of Notepad on winders. Oh, and it
doesn't crash anywhere near as often as StarOffice. But then if equations are
that important to you it must be worth using a buggy, bloaty piece of
MS-wannabee software *shrug* Personally I'd use LaTeX for that sort of
thing anyway...
Cheers
Dave
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