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]> _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users