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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:50:40 -0400
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> The notion that something that looks nice and shiny on the cover is a
> better product is a foolish thought.

I think Marin was saying that products should be both shiney and useful ;-)
I think that we all can agree that a useful program becomes better with a
nicer interface; therefore, GNU business software could benifit nicely from
a group of people that would put time and effort into making the software
easy to use.

-CRM