On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:24:48AM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On 5/23/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Is there someone one might write to about the importance of this task? > > I think if the coding team understood (a) the extent to which current > >bibliographic functions block adoption by academics, and (b) the > >importance of educational markets in adoption of new software, > >then there'd be a somewhat different valuation of priorities (e.g., a > >native SQLite > >driver would be great, but I doubt we'll pick up a whole lot of new > >users that way!). > > We know who to talk to, and have. > > However, you are assuming above the same thing that I once assumed: > that large corporations like Sun care about this market. I don?t think > they do. If you were a cash-strapped corporation looking for > oppoertunities to make more cash, would you prioritize edu? > > Not trying to be a downer; just to give a sense of what we are up against.
I see your point. I htink though that the edu market is the place where folks learn how to use office software, and they stick with what they know thereafter. so if I can't in cgood conscience recommend OOo to my students, they will take up using a pirated word, and be MSOffice users ever after. SO I'd like to see someone at Sun grapple with that argument. matt > > Bruce > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
