Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jul 2007 22:49 UTC
"'Siag, it sucks less!' This is the slogan for Siag Office. This and the self-effacing name for the Siag Office Word Processor, Pathetic Writer, might leave you thinking that this office suite is a mere plaything, a university student's cobbled-together programming assignment. But don't be fooled by first impressions. Siag Office is a lightweight suite of applications which might be just the right set of office tools for you, especially if you have older hardware."
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RE: Reminds me of WPDOS users
by systyrant on Thu 12th Jul 2007 03:47
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The article's title is "Siag office is far from pathetic", but ironically, the author lists all kinds of caveats and shortcomings in the article, seemingly blind to their severity or how annoying they can be.
But I'm not bashing him at all for that. It just reminds me of us people that still use the DOS version of WordPerfect. Yeah, WP 5.1 DOS is ancient and lacks a lot of functionality, but we still keep hacking it into working on modern operating systems. We see potential and use in it, even though the rest of the world's left it behind. I find something immensely comforting about its blue screen and completely unintrusive, minimalist interface. It's like coming home to an old friend.
I remember Siag from my early Linux days. Very fast and capable little set of programs for its time. StarOffice/OpenOffice was dog slow back then, to the point of being unusable for me, and AbiWord didn't have tables in those days. Then again, neither did Pathetic Writer, but I had no trouble doing the spreadsheet hack to make pseudo-tables.
Edited 2007-07-11 19:00