On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:30, Ian Lynch wrote: > 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
Add these piracy to privacy and malware concerns and asking a few hard questions - eg, how much productivity is lost to malware each month? What is your legal recourse to a situation where programming errors on the part of the vendor leaves you wide open to privacy-violating malware - incidentally making one liable for breaches of confidence with one's customers - and at the same time the vendor can audit you on suspicion of copyright misappropriation? It's possible to ask extremely emotive questions about the competitor without getting emotional oneself - all that it needs to to make the audience think for long enough to realise just what the situation is. Let them provide the emotion. Wesley Parish > 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 ;-). -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
