On 1 Nov 2002, Seth Kurtzberg wrote: > Jaymz, > > While my personal opinion is kword in front, abiword not out of the > running, and openoffice bringing up the rear, I'm not sure that your > argument here is, in fact, valid. Specifically, why not throw 128MB of > RAM at typing a letter? > > While this is esthetically unpleasing, from an engineering perspective > it may not be "bad". RAM is cheap, and development is expensive and > time consuming. primarily, my argument is that I have people breathing down my neck to deply openoffice on 32meg systems, and I genuinly would like to know what exactly is percieved as being so damn amazing about it that people are convinced that this 40 minute startup time is acceptable therefore, it was the first random thing I picked out that pissed me off about oopenoffice - perhaps I should have felt the need to writ ethe 50 page manifesto ;) - jj ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.