guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> btw, i don't only see microsoft's products as bloated. the same goes for
> KDE, gnome and other graphic applications.
IMHO a lot depends on your modus operandi. It is very easy to accuse,
say, XEmacs of being bloated if you think in terms of starting a new
XEmacs to have a look at a couple of lines in a file (is there a
Windows tool that allows one to quickly look at a couple of lines in a
Word file, by the way, or is starting Word the only option?). If,
however, XEmacs is a major tool of your trade and you just start it
once when you log in, then opening a buffer or using gnuclient or
editclient as your $EDITOR is perferctly reasonable.
I do consider Word "bloatware" (well, I also think it's incredibly
buggy, but that is off-topic), but for a different reason. A 2 page
plain text document is quite likely to take 3 MB in my experience. Now
I need to send 2 of these to someone by email. What did his ISP
allocate him for his mailbox? 5 Meg? Oops...
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"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
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