Re: [Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

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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.

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