On 9/14/05, Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chad Smith wrote: > > Um, why the heck couldn't you run MS Office 97 or XP "as long as you want"? > > There is nothing forcing you to upgrade if you don't want to. > [snip] > > Well, first, the old versions don't read the new formats.
Um, neither do older versions of OOo. And current versions of OOo will not support file formats that don't exist yet. I already address this point directly in my previous post. The OpenDocument Format, for example, is not supported by anything before 1.1.3 (or 1.1.4). And any changes, revisions, or new versions of formats from Microsoft would not be in those older versions. You said they can use OOo forever in the form it is now. They can do the exact same with MSO. > That's > currently a much smaller problem than it has been in the past because very > few have bought into the recent versions of MSO compared to the past. Or > are there now patches for the old versions of MSO to read the new formats? There are for Microsoft Office. There are *not* for OpenOffice.org. > Second, because most OEMs that I've seen the last 4 years do not provide > CDs and at best provide only images for restore CDs that you'd burn > yourself. So, when you buy a new machine, you lose the OEM version of > MSO. That's not counting the fact that burned CDs only last a few years > before dropping data. And how in the *WORLD* is that different from OOo? OpenOffice.org provides *NOTHING* in the way of CDs. And the CDs you can buy online are more than likely burned. You are showing absolutely no benefit of getting OOo over sticking with the MSO they already have. I am not hostile to OOo. I am simply point out major flaws in your argument. As a supporter and marketer of OOo, I cannot use your "selling points" because they are fundamentally flawed since they are based on non-facts. We need to use actual benefits to users and promote those real benefits to get them to switch. Not make up stuff that is not true at all. -Chad Smith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
