On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:04 -0700, jdow wrote: > Seems to me that "what we want to do with a computer" is what has > bloated. If you look at it dispassionately the web has gotten horridly > bloated with HTML email where regular email will do ... [snip] ... Do > we need all of OpenOffice to make the computers third world useful? > Might <shudder> emacs perform the job all by itself? emacs might be a bit of an extreme turn around, but the idea is right. People don't use half the features that a fancy application provides. There are other word processors that are quite small, and do what most people seem to do (use a word processor as little more than a fancy electric typewriter). About the only problem is some twit will want you to read a Word DOC, and *then* you'll need extra bloat to support it. Though, on the other hand, if you're looking at a really tiny personal computer, they're probably not going to have a printer. So plain text, or a simple rich text compatible with everyone else, readable off the screen, files are probably going to be more useful. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
