Re: OT: Death To Word, Final Word

From: Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:37:50 -0400

This tiny community of die hards notwithstanding, it was XyWrite which
died, not Word. Word went on to conquer the world. Who was it said, "Bad
money drives out good"?

<MD FL>

It would be interesting to find out why Word came to dominance (not over XyWrite, but over other comparable editors). My shaky hypothesis is that its due to the herd mentality of bureaucratized corporations. Or is there some feature of word that makes it, for some use, superior to, say, Word Perfect?

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- OT: Death To Word, Final Word
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Re: OT: Death To Word, Final Word

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