Well first off. I'm a strong supporter of OSS. I have purchased multiple
distros and
several OSS third party software. Secondly I'm not opposed to learning
new things,
but I am a finite being with finite resources. I don't want to spend a
day learning 
something so that I can write something that should only take a 1/2 hour
to complete.
I have no problem reading documentation. But I expect certain things to
be easy to 
accomplish without the need for reading the instructions. I have some
knowledge of 
computer systems and desktop publishing in general. I should have to
read a freaking 
manual for a format change that should be intuitively obvious. Lastly, I
have always 
found WP to be a competent and professional application.

jmsho,
Brian

ymmv

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Clinton [mailto:clintonj@umkc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:08 AM
> To: Brian Densmore
> Cc: DAVID KUCHARSKI; kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Koffice vrs OpenOffice
> 
> 
> Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> >Is this for Star Office? 
> >I opened it up but didn't know what to do with it in KOffice.
> >XML, Hmm going to have to learn XML just to write a simple document?
> >  
> >
> Nope: just OpenOffice and I suppose it would also work with 
> StarOffice 
> 6.0. All the formating was done using the GUI; no code was touched.
> 
> >I think I'll reinstall Word Perfect.
> >  
> >
> This is, by far, my biggest pet peeve with OSS advocates. You say you 
> want a life on the computer that is free from the tyrany of big 
> coorporations but when it comes right down to it, you'd rather be 
> complaicent with bad software than spend a day learning 
> something new. 
> Give OpenOffice and chance and -- if in doubt -- read the manual.
> 
> >Thanks for trying to help,
> >Brian
> >
>