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Subject:Re: Does anyone still use WordPerfect? From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:thadley -at- ttacs -dot- ttu -dot- edu Date:Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:58:08 -0400
thadley -at- ttacs -dot- ttu -dot- edu wrote:
>
> David,
>
> You are right: WP has *many* features that are better
> than MS Word, but it has, for the moment, at least,
> lost the war.
>
> Anyone know why? (Just curious.)
>
Lousy and incompetent marketing?
--
Peter
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved
promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned,
by either suicide, a bag of gold,
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.
Ernest Bramah (Kai Lung stories)
