Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

On 7/13/2011 11:20 AM, T. R. Valentine wrote:
> 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?)
I understand not wanting to install features you don't use. Similarly, I 
would like have in LO/OO.o is the ability to install just the parts I 
actually use, and to have this save disk space. Our of 1 or 2 TB 200 MB 
isn't a whole lot. But a 100 MB here and a 100 MB there, pretty soon, 
adds up to a lot of space, to paraphrase Tip O'neal.

David Teague
In 1980, we paid $5000 for a 5 MB hard disk, shared among 15 Apple II+ 
computers.

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