Nice try at changing the subject. Critique cannot be dismissed as bashing
simply because one dislikes it, especially if that critique is well
founded and based on well-deocumented data including court decisions.
The problem here is that the maker of the main competitor to OOo has
achieved and maintains market dominance mostly through illegal means,
seasoned with a good does of unethical business practices. Most of it is
centered around maintaining and abusing the monopoly on desktop operating
systems.
Most people are honest and would prefer, if given the chance to make an
informed decision, to choose vendors and software that operate legally and
ethically. The unwillingness or inability for MS to operate legally,
ethically or even adhere to technical standards is something that would
help OOo marketing greatly if brought into the daylight.
Also, divesting Microsoft and its products, would steer people back
to software of a much higher quality, both open and closed source. That
in turn would leave more time and money for businesses, organizations,
institutions and agencies to put into their core competencies. With
all the economic damage that MS and Gates have done globally to the
IT sector and to non-IT businesses or organizations which just happend to
use computers, a strong argument can be made that MS is the Al Qaida of
the Internet.
So from a marketing perspective, what will people prefer if given a chance
to make an informed decision, software that gives them freedom and
control (OOo) or the Al Qaida of the Internet (MS) ?
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Chuck wrote:
[snip] of Microsoft bashing on an email list that has nothing to do
with Microsoft. For the record this is the "Open Office General" email
list. [snip]
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