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____/ Richard Rasker on Thursday 18 September 2008 23:12 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software
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>> | OpenOffice.org is in an unenviable place. Office suites -- word
>> | processors, spreadsheets, presentations and the ilk -- are utilitarian,
>> | complex bundles of software. They are a necessity of modern life, used
>> | daily by individuals and businesses all over the world.
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> Sorry to tell you, but this doesn't even get close. OO.o is still just a
> nice software product, but with no real inroads yet. OK as an alternative,
> and most people who try it like it, but it's just a piece of Open Source
> just like Firefox. Sure, it's a cause for mild concern for Microsoft, but
> it's not yet a real threat. No real numbers are involved yet.
> What DOES, however, cause mr. Ballmer having a *really* sweaty sleepless
> nights, interrupted by occasional nightmares where he stumbles in the
> middle of his famous Monkey Dance, and his throat so clenched that
> his "Developers Developers Developers" is but a hoarse croak, is the fact
> that low-end all-round laptop computers running Linux are flooding the
> market, already outselling Windows right now, with prospects only getting
> better -- for Linux, that is, not Windows. Most definitely Not Windows.
> Um, "Windows", you know, the big has-been? Nah, never mind.
>
> Richard Rasker
I disagree with you. It has forced Microsoft to reduce the cost of one of its
very few profitable products. OOo is a product Microsoft tries to keep low in
terms of adoption by permitting people to make illegal copies of Office or
receive huge discounts.
The same goes for GNU/Linux by the way. Microsoft can't charge for Windows in
most of the world because there *is* choice. Free software is a huge pain to
Microsoft finances (it's probably deep in fraud BTW). This helps the consumer.
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