"John McCreesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Our "Keep the Car" campaign encourages people to compare OOo with the > competition. Microsoft don't want to return the compliment: > > "There can be no doubt that Microsoft is afraid of the open-source > movement. Last month, as part of the conditions for allowing us to > include Office 2007 on the cover disc, Microsoft Corp ... wouldn't > allow us to put any open-source software onto the same disc ... For > instance, Microsoft specifically named OpenOffice.org as a program we > couldn't include on the cover disc." > > http://www.pcpro.co.uk/columns/90653/prolog.html > > It's not very often that magazines are willing to go public on the > pressures applied by the master monopolist - they have too much > advertising revenue at stake. > But in this instance, they were saying that anyone who actually compared MSO to OOo would far prefer MSO: "For instance, Microsoft specifically named OpenOffice.org as a program we couldn't include on the cover disc. That's an incredibly short-sighted move. The whole point about Office 2007 is what it offers over and above OpenOffice.org, that it allows you to create more sophisticated documents more quickly. If I was on the board of Microsoft Corp, I'd be demanding that magazines bundled both side by side so that people could make their own comparisons." -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
