Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > > On 07/20/2011 08:15 PM, Andy Brown wrote: >> Robert Derman wrote: >>> Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>>> e-letter wrote: >>>> >>>>> It is difficult to understand why a business >>>>> would waste time trying to use LO; if a customer uses m$, the supplier >>>>> might as well do so also and consider the m$ price as a cost of >>>>> conducting business. >>>>> >>>> I've seen plenty of small, medium and large businesses that chose to >>>> use >>>> a free software office suite (so far I've only seen OpenOffice.org, but >>>> the same arguments would hold for LibreOffice). >>>> >>>> Virtually none of them did it only to save money, and those who have >>>> this kind of motivations are more likely to go back to Microsoft >>>> Office, >>>> so indeed in this case it would be a "waste of time" as you suggest. >>>> But, in almost all cases I've seen, the reasons were different, like >>>> getting rid of dependency on a specific vendor, or being able to run >>>> the >>>> same office suite across different operating systems. In these cases, >>>> switching to a free software office suite is not a waste of time, and >>>> compatibility with Microsoft formats is vital. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Andrea. >>>> >>> If you want to know about one very good reason for not using M$ Google >>> Ball Guitar String Co. >> Can you provide a link? Interested in reading this. >> >> Andy >> > http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html > > Summary: > MS Showed up at their doorstep with a bunch of armed marshals and then > charged them a bunch of money for what appeared to be unintentional MS > license reuse. >
Thanks Andrew. I have read that before but could not find it. Andy -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
