Re:How many REGISTERED? (Score 1)

Well, I registered both WordPerfect and StarOffice (including SO 5.1 this morning). I have both on my computer. Registration is painless and, I think, fair (they spent real money on the product, after all).

I do not see, however, a clear winner between SO and WP. Ugliness of WP is of lesser importance to me; speed does matter. I have some MIME types configured in Netscape to start WP - try this with StarOffice! However, when started, WP does quite a few things badly and slowly; it still can't print in color for me.

For industrial use WP is OK (if you, for example, fill forms all the day). I'd be reluctant to use WP for more intricate work, such as preparing documents for the Big Boss. People like students (who do not need embedded VB stuff to run an SQL query on every keystroke) can and should use WP. It is definitely a word processor that everyone can use (LyX sometimes generates illegal LaTeX code and asks to fix it!)