Desktop Linux (fwd)

[Michael Costolo]

--- Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> So - You are saying that using OpenOffice writer, a clone of MS-Word,
> constitutes 'Learning a new application" for a Microsoft Word user?

Yes.

> Every operation that people commonly use in MS-Word was invoked and
> operated EXACTLY the same way in OO as it was in Word.

So the programs are similar.  That makes it easy.  I thought you would appreciate
that.

> That is NOT "learning" a new application.  

It is a new application, no?  That it behaves remarkably similarly to the one they
are familiar with makes the transition easier.  But it *is* a new application.

> > Honestly now, how different are word processing applications? 
> 
> Scribus, Applix, Wang, Interleaf, Adobe Publisher, Wordstar,
> COBATEF,LXRTF, ana-systems, CatTrax, CSSC, Homecraft Software, Kudo,
> Informatel, and others - some vertically integrated word processors used
> by the newspaper and publishing industries. All very different, some
> requiring specialized training.

But we aren't talking about the newspaper industry, are we?  Average people can
figure out how to use the common word processors like Word, Word Perfect, OpenOffice
Writer, etc., with no "specialized training."  

Perhaps we should just agree to disagree on this one.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"
-George Bernard Shaw

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