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In article <9107132248.AA10375@wubios> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>The two most important computer applications today are Word Processing
>and Spreadsheets.  The GNU project is remiss in not making these
>programs a top priority.  -David-

There is a Gnu spreadsheet, Oleo.  And while there is no WYSIWYG
word processing program, there is Emacs together with groff and
Ghostscript, which allow for typesetting.

FSF itself will have to set its own priorities, but I think at this
stage of the game the foundation should be completed first -- get the
kernel done, and get to the point where a high-quality production
environment can be made available that requires no proprietary software
at all.  Make sure it runs on 386 PCs (cheapest platform to get the
needed power) in addition to the popular RISC workstations -- get it
into the hands of a lot of people, and then let the user community
produce and share the applications they need.

To be frank, I don't think the people FSF has are the right people
to produce beginning-user-friendly applications -- they've got
compiler and kernel experts for the most part (sorry, I don't mean
to insult anyone).  Better for them to serve as the core
for the project and support volunteers to do the end-user applications.

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