As a paralegal and sys admin for a small law firm, which still uses WP on Windows, I can tell you there are no acceptable alternatives for editing or creating legal pleading documents in the wpd format. Considering the amount of work-product we have on our server and in our archive, this is the biggest hurdle for us to clear, when considering word processing applications.
I have tried kword, openoffice.org, staroffice, abiword and others. None of them can successfully read or write WordPerfect pleadings documents. Perhaps, this release of WP12 for linux will finally make a gnu/linux desktop a viable option. (One can hope, anyway.)
I love the _evolutionary_ overtone of the final phrase of Mr. Love's post:
"[We] favor more biodiversity in the OS space."
Exactly! Let the software industry/environment evolve, without artificial, commercially driven restrictions. I'd like to see developers compete for whatever motivates them (eyeballs, downloads, dollars, etcetera), with quality, instead of semi-transparent deception.
[ugh] the speculative comment at the end of the original post is just that --speculative commentary. let's not jump to conclusions. i'll reserve my excitement for the first genuine, bona fide rumor.
and for whomever submits it, please don't skimp on the fake screenshots.
My understanding is that Transmeta is not in the business of developing/deploying any devices of their own, but rather, just providing the chips to those who will build and market devices (read, value-added services) as they see fit.
As stated by Ditzel earlier this week, there is quite a "horse race" going on between the companies that are developing webpads vs. those that are developing notebooks.
Perhaps, you mean "sextant" (found in www.merriam-webster.com):
Main Entry: sextant Pronunciation: 'seks-t&nt Function: noun Etymology: New Latin sextant-, sextans sixth part of a circle, from Latin, sixth part, from sextus sixth Date: 1628 : an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude)
Has it escaped everyone that during Jobs' most recent keynote, while professing the company's recent stellar financial perforance, he mentioned that Apple had less than one day of inventory in the channel.
It seems as though this would give them ability to stop on a dime and change direction with their system design. After all, (theoretically) it's not as if they have warehouses full of empty iMac shells laying about.
RedHat is a private (read: not publicly traded) company.
RedHat and all distribution packagers, charge for support, compatability testing, a pre-printed distribution-specific manual, as well as CD-ROM packaging of the, otherwise, freely available software. If you have the bandwidth, you can actually download all the software they sell and much of the documentation from their own ftp and web site(s).
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You should try neooffice/j [http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php]. It's based on OOo 1.1.2, and it integrates beautifully with OS X.
I disagree.
As a paralegal and sys admin for a small law firm, which still uses WP on Windows, I can tell you there are no acceptable alternatives for editing or creating legal pleading documents in the wpd format. Considering the amount of work-product we have on our server and in our archive, this is the biggest hurdle for us to clear, when considering word processing applications.
I have tried kword, openoffice.org, staroffice, abiword and others. None of them can successfully read or write WordPerfect pleadings documents. Perhaps, this release of WP12 for linux will finally make a gnu/linux desktop a viable option. (One can hope, anyway.)
knoppix >> http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html
...or, perhaps, i'll just use a telephone.
I love the _evolutionary_ overtone of the final phrase of Mr. Love's post:
"[We] favor more biodiversity in the OS space."
Exactly! Let the software industry/environment evolve, without artificial, commercially driven restrictions. I'd like to see developers compete for whatever motivates them (eyeballs, downloads, dollars, etcetera), with quality, instead of semi-transparent deception.
[ugh] the speculative comment at the end of the original post is just that --speculative commentary. let's not jump to conclusions. i'll reserve my excitement for the first genuine, bona fide rumor.
and for whomever submits it, please don't skimp on the fake screenshots.
... first they shine the bright light of universal healthcare in our eyes, then they slip this in.
[Hey, go back to the rink!]
My understanding is that Transmeta is not in the business of developing/deploying any devices of their own, but rather, just providing the chips to those who will build and market devices (read, value-added services) as they see fit.
As stated by Ditzel earlier this week, there is quite a "horse race" going on between the companies that are developing webpads vs. those that are developing notebooks.
Perhaps, we should all just wait and see.
Perhaps, you mean "sextant" (found in www.merriam-webster.com):
Main Entry: sextant
Pronunciation: 'seks-t&nt
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin sextant-, sextans sixth part of a circle, from Latin, sixth part, from sextus sixth
Date: 1628
: an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude)
... I concur.
Has it escaped everyone that during Jobs' most recent keynote, while professing the company's recent stellar financial perforance, he mentioned that Apple had less than one day of inventory in the channel.
It seems as though this would give them ability to stop on a dime and change direction with their system design. After all, (theoretically) it's not as if they have warehouses full of empty iMac shells laying about.
word.
RedHat is a private (read: not publicly traded) company.
RedHat and all distribution packagers, charge for support, compatability testing, a pre-printed distribution-specific manual, as well as CD-ROM packaging of the, otherwise, freely available software. If you have the bandwidth, you can actually download all the software they sell and much of the documentation from their own ftp and web site(s).