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Re: What I would like to see
by James Richard Tyrer on Saturday 21/Jun/2003, @21:37

> Both WordPerfect and WordStar ended up in the hands of Corel ...

And then there was no more WordStar. Which was my point, but thank you for correcting my hazy recollection of the exact history.

>> So, please tell us why compatibility is needed.

> Ah, that's easy. Think of it this way: you have an office full of people who have hard drives full of Microsoft Word documents.

Yes, they have hard drives full of old MicroSoft Word documents.

So, please tell us why they need a MS Word compatible wordprocessor? :-)

To make this clear. In order to show why a compatible wordprocessor is *needed*, you need to show why there is a need to ever open these OLD documents in any wordprocessor.

Keeping old finished documents that will never be edited again in a wordprocessor's native format is a sloppy habit that we should get over.

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JRT

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