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Re: [News] Proprietary Office Suites a Waste of Money, Freedom

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____/ 7 on Saturday 13 September 2008 22:33 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Why Are You Still Wasting Money on MS Office?
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>> | I highly suggest you check out these free office suites, especially if
>> | you've recently purchased a computer without an office suite, or are
>> | considering upgrading MS Office. You'll likely find their user
>> | interfaces familiar, their features plentiful and powerful, and with
>> | OpenOffice.org's support for multiple document formats, there's no
>> | reason to worry about compatibility problems. With these free
>> | alternatives available, why would you waste your money on MS Office?
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>> http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/323
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> 
> This must have micoshaft's lemonating wimmin foaming at the mouth
> and wanting to destroy this thread.
> 
> Open office is a better competitive replacement for micoshaft product
> and kills micoshaft's cash cow product.
> 
> Solution providers and systems architects can now specify and
> integrate Open Office into every aspect of document processing with freely
> available source code which can't be done with any micoshaft product.
> 
> Any solution provider or system architect that can't do
> all that with Open Office is either out of date or out of touch with
> the solutions space.

See this interview:

Brian Behlendorf, lead developer of the Apache Foundation 06 (2005)
http://ia360621.us.archive.org/0/items/e-dv267_01_behlendorf_006.ogg/e-dv267_01_behlendorf_006.ogg

Brian Behlendorf, lead developer of the Apache Foundation 07 (2005)
http://ia360602.us.archive.org/0/items/e-dv267_01_behlendorf_007.ogg/e-dv267_01_behlendorf_007.ogg

OpenOffice.org kills one of Microsoft's very few products that are profitable.
They try to use Novell to poison OOo, IMHO.


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