Free is better than cheap
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| Tesco is hoping to undercut Microsoft by selling cut-price software
| in supermarkets - but why pay anything?
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| Tesco's mantra is that every little helps. And it's done them well so
| far.
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| The supermarket giant is buying white label programs from a British
| company that essentially clone Microsoft's Office suite and sell
| for £20 a pop....
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| [...]
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| Open source software, much of it available for free, is where it's at
| for those whose eyeballs pop at Microsoft's price tags or market
| dominance. Although Tesco's offerings (based around an existing suite
| of software called Ability Office) are OK, they aren't anything special.
| But in fact OpenOffice - another attempt to provide an alternative to
| Seattle's dominance - is far more widely used and costs you nothing
| except a few minutes of your time.
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| [...]
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| So is Tesco simply trying to muscle into software sales on the cheap?
| Will its offerings be rubbish software aimed at people who just want to
| save a few quid? Who knows.
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http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/bobbie_johnson/2006/10/tescos_cheap_software.html
http://tinyurl.com/n4dl2
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