____/ Jim Richardson on Saturday 29 September 2007 20:47 : \____
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> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:21:01 +0100,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 September 2007 09:31 : \____
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>>> "Non scrivetemi" <nonscrivetemi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> >> One of my best friends has been using Linspire for years, now. Works
>>>>> >> for him...
>>>>> >
>>>>> >It does. But Apple OS X also works as a BSD. But it's not open source.
>>>>> >It's aggressive lock-in and restriction of choice. We're back were we
>>>>> >started -- another Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>> He's not locked in. He could switch tomorrow to another distro, if he
>>>>> wanted to.
>>>>
>>>> That's sorta like saying you're not locked into Windows because you can
>>>> switch to OSX/Linux/BSD.
>>>>
>>>> Bad driving is bad driving even if it's not Micro$oft at the wheel.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I quite agree. I don't know if you saw my other posting, but I was
>>> highlighting that lock-in is about an exit barrier. That might be the
>>> cost of replacing packages you've already bought, or the cost of
>>> replacing hardware, or the cost of redoing work which is stuck in
>>> proprietary formats, or the cost of paying for tools to unpick those
>>> proprietary formats, and so on.
>>>
>>> The point being that there is always lock-in, it's a question of how
>>> large the exit barrier is.
>>
>> Linspire supports OOXML (translators). If that's not a lockin, I don't know
>> what is. It also enabled Microsoft to pretend that OOXML is supported by
>> other companies, which fills our world with even /more/ vendor lockin. Let's
>> not even go into Linspire's proprietary codecs...
>>
>
> So when there's an ooxml translator for OOorg, that means any Linux
> distro with OOorg is "locking in" their users?
ODF is an international standard supported by a large variety of office suites.
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