Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Wal-Mart to sell $300 PC with OpenOffice
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| Dell followed a similar strategy on July 10 when it withheld bloatware from
| its new Vostro line of PCs for small business users after a long campaign by
| bloggers and Dell customers against common practice by PC vendors of loading
| unrequested software onto new computers. Software companies fund the effort
| as a way to find new users.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070718/tc_infoworld/90292
>>>"But it has a couple of problems; one is that it uses a Via
processor, which is almost unknown to U.S. consumers. And it runs at
just 1.5 GHz, so it's unknown how it will handle Microsoft Vista," she
said. "And running OpenOffice is kind of a unique tactic. It's
anti-Microsoft as Microsoft obviously owns the market for productivity
software. So users may have some concerns about compatibility."
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Oh, wait a minute! One minute we're a bunch of Spider Monkeys in Bill
Gates' menagerie -- but somehow we're magical Monkeys that know the
difference between Office 2007 and OpenOffice 2.x.
How did that happen? Do we suddenly grow brains when it comes to
making a decision against OSS...but if the question of giving us a
choice comes up, then we're IQ 80?
Mmmmm.....
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