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.
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