Andy Brown wrote:
> The way I see it is that Microsoft, trying to control the end user, does
> not make it east to add non-MS programs.
The control also comes from Windows speed bumps inside posing as IT
support. [1]
In environments like that, you will see a lot of Windows downloads,
because each individual will have to download their own or share on USB
stick. Then when the speed bumps find and erase the non-MS software,
the users have to download again.
> Linux on the other hand makes
> it very easy to add programs. Linux basically ships with OO.o.
So does Solaris and the BSD's, including OS X, But the OS X repository,
if one does not count Fink [2], is missing OOo. NeoOffice is there, but
yet not OOo. It looks like we may need a contact at Apple to get OOo
listed:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/
Listed as 'open source', which OOo is,
not as 'freeware' which OOo is not.
Regards
/Lars
[1] Even without the insiders acting as speed bumps it is very difficult
to install non-MS programs on Windows and these programs get erased with
any 're-format, re-install' action and occasionally broken by Windows
'updates' The speed bumps often rely on the 're-format, re-install'
approach to maintenance and that keeps software like OOo off the machines.
See Plaintiff's Exhibit 9346 from Comes v Microsoft for one example:
"Find and Lean on your insider friend, 'the fox'. Having
a trusted MSfriend in the account is critical ... MS
folks may not be the strongest voice but they are true
believers (Protect them, make them look good)."
http://groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09346.pdf
[2] OpenOffice.org in the Fink package repository:
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?summary=openoffice
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