From: Paul Foley <mycroft@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:12:56 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Bounty Server, Revisited.
In-Reply-To: <199611261946.NAA05804@bigeasy.com>
Message-ID: <199611271319.CAA15233@mycroft.actrix.gen.nz>
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:48:47 +0000, "Omegaman" wrote:

   >      graphics editing software, easy to use Graphic Design Software (TeX
   >      is NOT easy to use) and easy to use Cryptographic software. 

TeX *may* not be easy to learn (the price of The TeXBook is well worth
it), but it's not hard to use.  It's not suited to graphic-laden
documents, though.

   many would pay good money for Linux native versions of programs like 
   Wordperfect, Corelpaint & draw, Pagemaker , etc.

WordPerfect, at least, is available (from Caldera).  And then there
are the ApplixWare and StarOffice suites.  I've been hearing rumours
about CorelDraw for quite a while, but nothing concrete yet AFAIK, and
Corel are supposed to be doing a Java-based office suite that will run
under Linux+JDK.

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