On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Yes. Don't you think it would help enterprises to have MS Office work on > > Linux ? They might all migrate to Linux to reduce operational > expenditure. > > Windows licenses will expire in a few months anyway. So would they not > > consider switching to Linux? And if they do, would that not be a good > thing > > for Free Software and Linux as a whole? I'm curious how this will pan > out. > > What's the point of migrating to Linux when in the end you are going to > use the product of a monopoly. It will only kill the efforts like > LibreOffice and then the argument will be when all you are going to use > is a Microsoft product then why don't just use Windows? +1. That's why RMS has been insisting on giving importance to *freedom* than the other technical aspects. Now we are in a sorry state that even a "FOSS enthusiast" in a LUG has forgotten the whole point of Free software and is advocating for using M$ product on "Linux". I have been holding my hands not to reply to this pointless conversation started by an 'April fools day joke', but the previous arguments made me reply. Can we stop this pointless discussion and move on to something useful? -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
