Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] [Rival] Google's Office Killer is Already Killing Office

On 2008-09-04, amicus_curious <ACDC@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "JEDIDIAH" <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:slrngbvngl.6pf.jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On 2008-09-04, amicus_curious <ACDC@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1aax9sf97f9uu$.k40635t7jo59.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:15:06 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
[deletia]
>>>> Yawwn.
>>>> You Linux loons have been singing that song for years.
>>>> It hasn't happened.
>>>>
>>>> Look at OpenOffice for example.
>>>>
>>>> It's free, it's cross platform and still it's market share is dismal.
>>>>
>>> It seems so strange that they don't see the illogic of their position. 
>>> Now
>>
>> ...let's see: we have GIMP, avidemux, VLC, mplayer, transcode and ffmpeg
>> being either pushed by the enthusiast crowd or the Windows press.
>>
>>   Plus we have firefox eroding the share of IE and that is engineered with
>> vendorlock in mind.
>>
>>   So it's only a matter of time before OO chips away at msoffice.
>>
> Well, they have had an awful lot of time and not much chipping.  MS Office 
> seems to sell a little more each year in spite of whatever chips there may 

    ...the old "compatable" problem.

    Although firefox has made progress despite of that.

> be.  Windows does the same although a "little more" is more like a "lot 
> more".  You guys keep holding your breath.
>
>>> we have Google spending a few hundred million bucks to promote their 
>>> stuff
>>> and they have  a million or so customers, which is still a drop in the
>>> bucket.  But OSS has nothing to spend on promotions.
>>>
>>
>>   Ultimately, it doesn't have to. What really matters is what happens when
>> you declare that you don't have a copy of msword. Will the Lemming Pirates
>> hand you a copy of msoffice or will they hand you a copy of OO?
>>
> You keep thinking that way.  As long as the Lemming CIOs keep buying it for 
> the corporations, the ball keeps rolling, eh?  They look upon the Lemming 
> Pirates as "trainees" I think.
>
>>   People (like grannies) who shouldn't be are all caught up in the 
>> "compatablity"
>> FUD surrounding msoffice and Windows in general.
>>
> Well, maybe you are right and it is all in one's perception of reality 
> rather than in reality itself.  What can you do about it if you refuse or 
> else are too poor to advertise your own truths?  Are people's perceptions 

     You mean like proclaiming to the world that you are just full of shit.

> likely to change on their own?  Maybe you can get by with some fat, scraggly 
> guy preaching about "libre!" instead. 
>

     1995 called. It wants it's FUD back.

     That characterization was outdated even in 1998.

-- 
	How did irc manage to get so pretentious about civility      |||
	of discourse when it doesn't even allow for the free and    / | \
	open exchange of ideas?

 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------       
                http://www.usenet.com

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index