____/ Rick on Sunday 30 September 2007 16:05 : \____
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:19:04 +0100, Kier wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:37:10 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ owl on Saturday 29 September 2007 22:50 : \____
>>>
>>>> DFS <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Microsoft might have to try to compete on merit.
>>>>>
>>>>> When will Linux and open source?
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw with my own eyes dozens of $1.99 boxes of Suse 8.1 sitting on a
>>>>> Microcenter endcap for weeks, people walking by it and not even
>>>>> taking a second glance. Imagine if the price had been $199.99...
>>>>>
>>>>> Or imagine it was Windows XP for $1.99... you'dl have customers
>>>>> lining up out the door.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> My local Office Max put Excel 2007 on sale for $5.00. On the first day
>>>> alone, 13,107 people came in to buy it, making MS a cool $100,000.
>>>
>>> SuSE 8.1 was an excellent O/S. I used it for almost 4 years, until 3-4
>>> months ago when my hard-drive died and I finally said goodbye to SUSE
>>> (8.1 was not yet infected by the 'Novell management virus', let alone
>>> the Novell branding).
>>
>> Get off this blatant anti-Novell crap, will you, Roy?
>
> I dunno ....
> Novell has added some things to their 'brand" of Open Office ... such as
> the OOXML-ODF converter that doesn't seem to be showing up in other OO.o
> versions.
Novell has its own edition of OpenOffice, with a Windows version that boasts
special features (no luck for Linux users. We had our little storm about it
about 6 months ago.
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