On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 01:12, Joel Hammer wrote:

> He also noted that MS is "stealthily" reducing the price of its consumer
> software. You can buy an academic copy, which can be installed up to three
> times, at stores, and have only the weakest link to a full time student,
> or none. This runs about $150 dollars. So, the pricing differential is
> getting much less. This tends to support my contention that the biggest
> beneficiaries of the linux movement will be current MS users who don't
> switch to linux.

Office 2003 for home use is over $350 US in Sweden. And that is the
cheapest of their offerings I saw. The student thing surely exists as
well. So my $50 US for SO 7 is not too bad.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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