Journals are just not doing benchmarks or product reviews anymore,
so it gets harder to find anything published that's less than a warmed
over press release.
Though their review of digital photo editing tools was egregious and
heading a step in the direction of MS only product reviews, I think it
would be a coup to get OOo, StarOffice, Hancom, and others reviewed by
Consumer Reports.
Or how about pooling resources or at least coordinating with other groups
using OpenDocument? A lot of farmers do this, e.g. dairy council.
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Steven Shelton wrote:
I get this a lot, myself. The impression really comes off as being one that
open source supporters are so partisan about anything anti-Microsoft that
they are blind to some of the real advantages offered by some Microsoft
products.
I've seen far more of the opposite. A few MS die-hards work their way
into the bureacracy at a company, agency or institution and then turn a
blind eye and a deaf ear to anything non-Microsoft be it closed source or
open source. That goes even after agreed upon in advance methodology show
data which by agreed upon in advance critera show the MS products to be
the least viable for that given context.
[snip]
without objectivity there is no credibility.
This is true, but there are relatively few objective sources any more.
Pretty much everyone has already either 1) been burned badly by MS'
defects or pricing or 2) pine away for a chance to meet Chairman Bill who
is so wealthy.
Brand recognition cuts both ways. If you make inefficient, defective
products and over-charge for them and engage in illegal / predatory
business practices (all established facts) for a long enough time,
eventually people will remember.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents harm all Net-based business, write your MEP:
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN
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