Re: missing thesaurus

Everyone on the list is having good things to say on this issue. I'm
trying not to go too far off topic, but I've got to get this off my
chest: Why can't a techno-guru write a Linux "conversion" application.
Like a disk-burning utility, it would offer the option of "Copy Windows
disk into Linux compatible format?" That way, all my great reference
software becomes instantly installable and usable. And then maybe
somebody would write an Abiword plug-in for accessing these applications
from within Abiword. I would pay big $$$$ for this!

For me, good reference software installed on the hard drive is simply
the most efficient way for me to work. Books are always primary, but the
search functions enabled in all the big unabridged dictionaries (OED,
Webster's, American Heritage, Random House, etc.) change all the rules
of what you can do. And online sources are great, but they are simply
not as efficient. And some, like my Johnson's unabridged Dictionary of
the English Language on CD-ROM, will never interest a wide enough
audience to support an online version or a stand-alone Linux version.

Okay, now go ahead and laugh at my ignorant techno-utopianism and curse
me for wandering off topic.

--Mark Richardson

Katipo wrote:

> Things have come a long way in the last twelve years only.
> Many reference choices are also going to have to meet the challenge of
> rapidly developing online sources, in which case, it's not going to
> matter what you run as an OS.
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Received on Wed Aug 2 00:42:33 2006