On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 10:38 +0000, CPHennessy wrote: > On Sat December 10 2005 09:25, Roger Markus wrote: > > In 1995 Antel, the national telephone company of Uruguay, was caught > > pirating $100,000 worth of unlicensed software programs from Microsoft, > > Novell, and Symantec. > > Any company using pirated software can be brought to court. they can > also reach a "plea bargin" with the original proprietary companies to > retroactively license their software. > > This is not a reason to despise Microsoft, rather it is a reason to use open > source software. > > Now is there some question about OpenOffice.org is this discussion ?
The main issue is simply that there is a lot of evidence about that can be used in the promotion of OpenOffice.org. It has to be used carefully but it is a potential marketing advantage and we have precious few of those. Countering a $360m a year propaganda machine for MSO is not that simple with no marketing budget. Its not a matter of despising anyone and use of evidence in such a way so as not to appear to be particularly emotive is often the best way to do things. However, its difficult to see how active appeasement of Microsoft actually does anything to help OOo. On balance its largely down to confidence. MS knows this. Undermine confidence in the opposition, boost confidence in your product. Let's just do it, but do it with apparent objectivity ;-). -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
