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Re: [LUG] [OT] The Vista Experience with Office 2007

 

On 05/07/06, Martinus Scriblerus <martinus.scriblerus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/4/06, Ben Goodger <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> All software expands to fit available processing power and memory capacity -
> OOo provides no more features than Word 97, but requires a comparative
> mainframe to run properly; GNOME arguably doesn't do anything special that
> Windows 95 doesn't, and yet requires 256MB of RAM.

I always reckon that soiftware expands to *exceed* processing power
and memory capacity. You have to drive the next generation of hardware
purchasing.

Microsoft software does that; open-source software doesn't.

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Ben Goodger
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