On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Adam Moore wrote:
unfortunately they had to spend 2.7 million dollars over three years maybe
they could have used that money to help offset tuition costs and buy
StarOffice or went with OpenOffice. Then they don't have to worry about what
to do in 3 years.
Indeed. Getting locked into the MS file formats will make it harder to
migrate. In effect, for this small sum, the university is handing over
partial control of their most valuable asset, which is the writings of the
staff and faculty.
And, since a lot of research these days depends on close collaboration
with and funding by the private sector, the DRM encumbered applications
and formats, decrease the difficulty of corporate espionage rather than
the opposite.
-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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