Oops... I read it April 1, so I thought it was a joke... J.R.
2008/4/2, Per <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Congrats to Microsoft who got there suite "ISO-certified".... > > If the vote was "dirty", well it´s not up to me to investigate.... > but there are a lot of voices on this mail-list against OOXML, and > Microsoft ad there products in common.. the reasons ?? > > a big hate to Microsoft, and Windows, an IE, and Ballmer, and Gates, that > the OS is costing money, the Office-suite is costing money, /(as an example, > Adobes products cost a whole lot of money to, but I don´t hear any comment > about that fact)/ and..... etc, etc.... > > I asume that all of these voices never had there fingers on a machine with > Windows or MS-DOS, that they never wrote a letter in the BAD Microsoft Word, > or made a spreadsheet in Excel.. or maybe they have done this... ;-) > > I´m on Win XP, running OO.o, MS Office XP, I have used MS Office since > -93. I think it´s a good suite (for my needs) AND so are OO.o. I´m looking > at Ubuntu, but so far it´s only looks I giving that OS... > > If Linux is so much better than Windows, why isn´t everybody switching? > If OO.o is so much better than MS Office suite, why isn´t everybody > switshing?? > > I mean, zero bucks, to a lot of bucks for MS products.. > > So it can´t be the price.. so what is it then ??? > > > I thing the answer is marketing, marketing and marketing.... > > Most common citizens on the planet, plain people, runs a machine with a > version of Windows, legal or not... they run perhaps, MS Works, any MS > Office-suite, legal or not. > > If the goal is to get many users that is running OO.o, there must be a > massive marketing, ads and so on. > Lift up the good stuff about OO.o, not that it is ISO-certified etc, and > ALL that other techical-mumbojumbo.. it´s only scares the regular user, > ´cause there are a lot of users out there with just a little bit of a > knowledge about computers, trying to learn more about to handle a computer, > and burping up techical crap... > Nah, they don´t get impressed... they don´t give a s**t about that fact.. > > Why you should use OpenOffice.org ??? Try to find som many answers to that > question to the person you trying to convince that OO.o is a good substitute > to Microsofts product. And please, do it without the "tinfoilhat"-look in > your face... :-D > And don´t forget... if anyone has paid for his/hers Windows and MS > Office... why should they switch?? ´Cause it´s only suckers that run > MS-products?? > Let them run there paid-for products, but point out the good stuff about > OO.o. > > Trying to getting in to the business-world is harder... because there are > so many other systems "built on" products from Microsoft. At least for > "larger" business. It should be easier - perhaps - to reach owners in small > business etc. > > > There is a lot of preassure on the development-team so they are doing a > superb version 3.0, making more people discovering OpenOffice.org. > > But, I´m pretty sure, to get more users on OO.o, there has to be more > marketing-activities.... Metro-ads etc. > > > Best regards > > // Per > > > > Joseph skrev: > > > > > > > No.... first graders maybe. <GRIN> > > > > > > > > Christina Godinez wrote: > > > > > This is a david versus goliath.. Microsoft has the money to corrupt > > > those countries to make it an iso standard. What type of common sense that > > > these country's government has? You can ask any 5 year which one do they > > > prefer, one that is free and or one that cost money? Are the government > > > of > > > these countries "smarter than a 5th grader?" > > > James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Joseph wrote: > > > > > > > > > > James Knott wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Joseph wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > James Knott wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is now confirming that OOXML won > > > > > > > > the vote for ISO standards approval. Reports indicate that the > > > > > > > > OOXML won 75 > > > > > > > > percent of the vote after being soundly defeated last fall. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1304&tag=nl.e589 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That's if you can claim they "won" after all the cheating > > > > > > > etc., that went on. Apparently there are at least a couple of > > > > > > > protests in > > > > > > > the works. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So what does this mean, if I may ask? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In what respect? As things stand, it will become an ISO > > > > > "standard". However, unlike most other ISO standards, there was > > > > > blatant > > > > > cheating, such as ballot stuffing, committees ignoring majority votes, > > > > > "rules" made up on the fly, bought votes etc., to the point there's a > > > > > real > > > > > stink being raise, to the point in at least two countries, the > > > > > committees > > > > > are filing protests. It's quite plain to see that in this case, ISO > > > > > approval > > > > > was bought, which means that all ISO standards must now be suspect, > > > > > as you > > > > > don't know if someone paid for them. However, what happens if enough > > > > > votes > > > > > are reversed to kill this? > > > > > > > > > > The whole point of this, was so that Microsoft could claim "ISO > > > > > standard", so that government etc., are more likely to buy their new > > > > > office > > > > > versions, in order to force lock in. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh I get it. ISO.... Ignorant Slob Orchestrated??? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Actually, it's "I sold out". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > > signature database 2995 (20080402) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > >
