Interesting. MS-Windows comes pre-installed with a trial version of MS
Word which apparently expires after some time ... unless OpenOffice.org is
installed.
The claim is that the trial version of MS Word will continue to function
beyond the trial period only if OOo is present:
If OOo is not there and the trial MS Word has expired, then MS Word will
not open MS Word files.
If OOo is installed and the trial MS Word has expired, then MS Word will
open MS Word files anyway.
Is there anyone on the list who still runs Windows that has a machine that
could be used to try to repeat the experiment. If the problem described
in the Slashdot post is verifiable, then it would be serious marketing
material for Ooo.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Deepankar Datta wrote:
This slashdot comment here has someone's observations on how MSO might
be responding to an installation of OOo
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171269&cid=14264625
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