On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 13:34:51 PM +0000, Andrew Brown
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> People who choose to use MS Office or Windows are not fools or
> brainwashed sheep. They are making perfectly rational decisions,
> trading time, money, and convenience off against each other.
I'd question the "choose" part, but with this exception I agree and am
perfectly fine with that concept. But Office and Windows are software,
not formats. File formats do NOT have to be tied to one application or
provider. It is perfectly rational, and in the interest of Microsoft
Office users to:
1) keep using MS Office as long as they want
2) using .doc and friends when they have no other choice
3) start pretending that their governments use OpenDocument and
that Microsoft adds support in their favourite office suite.
3) doesn't exclude 1) and 2). And it would surely lead, in the
medium/long term to a price reduction of Microsoft Office and Windows
Ciao,
Marco Fioretti
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Go ahead, capitalize the T on technology, deify it if it will make you
feel less responsible -- but it puts you in with the neutered,
brother, in with the eunuchs keeping the harem of our stolen Earth for
the numb and joyless hardons of human sultans, human elite with no
right at all to be where they are -- T. Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_
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