I can understand why software companies expand software products to do more and more things (to justify new versions, to convince chumps to 'upgrade', and to push other software companies out of the picture), but I do not understand those who buy into such a process with its accompanying bloat.
I want to choose the product which is best for my needs in each area where I have a need for an application. If, for instance, I use web-based e-mail, I have no need for an office suite which includes an e-mail function and I neither want to spend the money nor waste hard drive space for such a 'feature'. The worst expansions-into-bloat are what used to be anti-virus products which now try to be firewalls, anti-spam, anti-whatever-you-might-not-want, etc. But Microsoft Office isn't all that far behind. I'm actually surprised they haven't rolled Visio into the suite. (Or have they and I didn't notice?) -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
