Aunty Diluvian wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:04:34 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >,----[ Quote ]
> >| Microsoft offers you a "test drive" so that you can see what Microsoft
> >| Office 2007 might look like when it finally goes on sale.
> >|
> >| The OpenOffice.org Community invites you to go one better - download
> >| a fully-functional, legal copy of the OpenOffice.org 2 office suite todayf
> >| or a test drive. If you like it, use it free for as long as you like. We
> >| say it's the ultimate no-strings-attached test drive - if you enjoy the
> >| test drive, keep the car!
> >`----
> >
> >http://why.openoffice.org/
> >
> >I think they took/borrowed the analogy from desktoplinux.com...
>
> Sure, you can keep the car but it doesn't run.
> Do they still drive "Model A Fords", Edsels or Nash Ramblers?
Reminds me of Windows 1.0 through 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.x,
Windows ME, and Pre-SP2 versions of ANY version of Windows.
I had a 1961 Rambler American in 1974, just as the USA was having a gas
crisis and the price of gas went from 25 cents/gallon to over 1 dollar
a gallon. My little Rambler, with overdrive, could get about 40 miles
per gallon. I could drive anywhere any time, even during rationing.
Model T and Model A Fords seem primitive by todays standards, but they
could travel on almost any kind of road, even ox-cart paths. If the
road was dry, you could get there.
As for the Edsel, the car had a lot of really great ideas which became
standard several years later, but there was just too much, too soon.
People couldn't get comfortable with all those newfangled gadgets.
Let's see, lots of bang for the buck (Rambler), works in even the most
hostile environments (Model T and Model A), and loaded with more
gadgets than most people know how to use (today) and years ahead of
it's competitors (Edsel).
I guess you're RIGHT!! Linux/OSS IS like a Model T/A, Rambler, and an
Edsel all rolled into one.
All we have to do now is get people to "test drive one" that they don't
have to "build from a kit".
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