Re: MS Word - what a mickey mouse pile of sh!t.

From: Amedee Van Gasse (nzrqrr.ina.tnffr_at_rztebhc.or)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:28:50 +0100

Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers:

> One of the things that most often makes the balance tip to the "love"
> side for me is the extent to which Word can be customized to work the
> way I want.

Yeah kewl!
I like the fact that you can modify the source code, but also that you
can recompile it with optimization flags specific to your processor.
Ow...

ERROR!

Right, this is MSOffice@Windows, not OpenOffice@Gentoo
braino...

> I also love the fact that there is always uncharted
> territory to explore. There are some features of Word that I may
> never need to use and consequently never fully understand, but I am
> happy knowing that they are there if I need them.

OTOH, Gentoo has this system of USE-flags. Got a feature you don't
need? Don't use it! Need it later? Activate the flag and recompile!
Like this:
app-office/msoffice -VBA -WIZARD -SPELL

In theory, this would compile MS Office without VBA, that bloddy
stoopid paperclip, and spellling checker. (find the joke)

Of course, MS Office is NOT Open Source, so you could do this only in
Erehwon. 

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Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.1.2
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