Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Learning Groove
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Johannes Ernst wrote: (01)
> Does this summarize it? If Groove was different in all / some /
> (which?) of these aspects, would you use it? (02)
I share all of the complaints you listed, but I am not religious about
them. If the app is compelling enough, I will use it. QuestMap, a
Windows 3.1 app, is one example. Of course, I have the luxury of being
able to write programs to parse QuestMap data, which not everyone has.
Tinderbox looks like something that might be compelling enough to buy,
but I don't have a Mac. I haven't found Groove compelling enough to use,
but maybe it's because I don't currently have good use for it. (03)
Incidentally, I only run Windows 2000 for three things: QuestMap, PPTP
(for accessing a client's VPN), and watching DVDs. The latest version of
OpenOffice works well enough for me to use exclusively. xine has a ways
to go, and I just haven't had time to configure a PPTP client for Linux
yet. And if Mifflin ever became open source, I could hack it to use
MySQL, and run that on Linux instead of QuestMap. (04)
Or, if I could get VMWare working, I'd purchase that, and get the best of
all worlds. (05)
-Eugene (06)
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