Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Something interesting I have come across in the Microsoft Answers
Forums. A Poster asked a question about using MS Office 2000 in
Windows 7. I replied that in my opinion I would much rather run the
latest version of Open Office rather than trying to run a 10-year old
obsolete insecure Office suite.
The interesting reply was, that the OP thanked me for that, and said
that he would have a look at it, BUT he "genuinely didn't know that OO
existed"!
Interesting? Food for thought?
How do we propagate knowledge that OO exists?
Frankly, I suspect that at least 50% of the general public is not aware
that Open Source exists! I think that shareware made a bad name for
free software and since that time much of the public has simply ignored
ALL free software. Also, I don't recall ever seeing anything about OOo
or any other free software except perhaps FireFox in the mass media. A
story on the evening national TV news, and everyone or nearly everyone,
would be aware of it. Or if Oracle would run a couple of national TV
adds once 3.3 is released, then people would be aware of it. If Larry
really wanted to get Steve B. that would be one sure way to do it.
Oracle has the deep pockets that Sun never did, and I think the right
kind of advertising campaign might just do it. Like for instance,
Oracle saying that they didn't think that people should have to spend a
lot of money to have a quality Word Processing program or spreadsheet
etc., on their home computer, so thanks to them, here it is as a FREE
download. This could create an enormous amount of good will and brand
recognition for Oracle, and would likely increase the sales of their
profit making products.
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