On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:33:57 -0700 Andy Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed Oct 13 2010 15:21:08 GMT-0700 (PDT) Manfred Usselmann wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:33:19 +0300 > > Simos Xenitellis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> This was on the news recently, see ars technica for a good analysis, > >> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/microsoft-posts-video-of-customers-criticizing-openoffice.ars > >> > >> It is a Microsoft video to scare people away from open-source and > >> OpenOffice.org. > > > > Wow, this is really incredible how they try to influence and scare > > people in such vicious way. > > > > > >> Will this thing help to get Oracle to react on the Document Foundation > >> and LibreOffice? > > > > How? Oracle Open Office is based on that evil thing called > > OpenOffice.org, which will harm you in any possible way and soon even start > > eating your children. > > > > This puts me in mind of the "Political ads" running here in the United > States right now. Smear the opposition at all cost. May the other > 'guy' look worse that you are. At least they go the name right, > including the .org. :> a form of advertising which is - strangely enough - acceptable in the US but not over here in Europe (at least not in Austria and Germany). The outcry about the video from the people I know here was enormeous. No wonder Microsoft decided to delete all comments and not accept new ones... The "funny" thing about the ad was: Every single argument can be turned 180° and used against them... Klaus -- Klaus Doblmann B.A. - FSF member #7570 Blog: http://straightrazorguy.net PGP-Key: http://dokla.net/pgp_key.asc http://twitter.com/klausdoblmann http://www.libreoffice.org - die FREIE Bürosuite! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to [email protected] List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
