[plug] Cost of Windows

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:53, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2001 06:31, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 22:49, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> OS		Windows XP $675		Mandrake 8.1 $60
> >> Office	Office XP $1072		StarOffice $0
> >> 					AbiWord $0
> >> 					Gnumeric $0
> >> 					KOffice $0
> 
> > Of these only StarOffice (OpenOffice) actually works reliably.
> 
> Acually, Gnumeric does pretty well for itself too. I've sucked multi-megabyte 
> fancy colourful Excel sheets into it with no lossage.
> 
> When was the last time anyone here use AbiWord? I've had good reports in 
> terms of reliability and useability but haven't taken the time to explore it 
> thoroughly.

Thoroughly failed to notice gnumeric in there. That's the spreadsheet I
prefer when having to deal with the excel spreadsheets people keep
emailing me.

Just tried abiword. It's looking better (didn't segfault after 5
characters as it did a few months ago.) However I did manage to convince
it to no longer display it's cursor, highlighting and the menus to stop
working by tinkering with it. The word clone in staroffice is a lot
better.

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