Open software: follow-up

Every so often I solve a nagging problem by a slightly different approach. I wrote in "Open Software - You get what you pay for" of my difficulties of finding a replacement for Netscape Composer 7. The file I downloaded was corrupted, and I found it difficult to wade through all the help options.

A few days later, I thought to do a search on the name of the downloaded file. Within the first ten hits was a question just like mine. The questioner received several answers, mostly variations telling her that the product in question was no longer supported and had been replaced by Sea Monkey, all-in-one internet application suite. It is available for Windows, Linux GTK2, Mac OS X, and other systems.

The annoying problem that I had a few days ago no longer exists and I can update my web site pages much faster.

Open Software -You get what you pay for

I've been busy updating my website with some new ideas (to me) and am getting tired of some of the pecularities of Netscape Composer 7.2. I looked for a later version but Netscape 9 is only a browser.

I found that Mozilla Suite replaces it and tried downloading it. When I try to open the downloaded package, my system tells me it has damaged files. I checked the Mozilla website but any support seems too complicated for the time I want to spend.

I guess I'll put up with Composer 7.2 for awhile longer.