I am still a holdout for wordperfect (I kept upgrading it). The problem is I have two versions of every document, one for myself and the other for the ROW!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington Campus Box 358436 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Devine, James wrote: > I wrote: >>>> Software depreciates very quickly, so that it's more like a > raw material > than like fixed capital.<<<< > > Ian: > >>> Depreciates quickly in terms of exchange value, not use value. Logic, > math and funky grammars are the raw material.<<< > > >>it also depreciates as when a new version of the software is introduced.<< > > Ian:> That's what I was saying. Did Outlook Express 6.0 *really* devalue > Outlook Express 5.0 if you still use the latter to get all your > communication via email done? What are those who have not upgraded missing > in their lives?< > > the problem is that the "network economies" are a double-edged sword. MS > Word's popularity not only helped it become more popular -- since "everyone > else" was using it (especially within a corporation) -- but it also > destroyed WordPerfect. > > Outlook Express 6.0 may not have "really" depreciated Outlook Express 5.0, > but MS likely thought up some way -- some bug or incompatibility -- to make > it harder for those with OE 5.0 to communicate with those using OE 6.0 than > it had been to communicate with those with OE 5.0. > > WordStar Lives! > JD > >
