On the heals of my posting....today I was at my travel agent's office, part
of the Thomas Cook chain, trying to book a last minute flight, when what
did I see on her Windoz desktop but the StarOffice icon......
Joseph
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Joseph Dal Molin
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From: "Smith, Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 1:45 PM
Subject: RE: OSS on the desktop....interesting developments
> For once the media hype is actually working in our favor. How many times
> have we in the States seen a minor problem, certainly serious and
> occasionally life-threatening, get pushed to the point where it seems like
> it is the end of global civilization as we know it? Microsoft and the
> global press has hyped OSS and Linux to the point that no reasonable
> expectation can be obtained from it.
>
> It seems at this point that the small fear of Microsoft of OSS is becoming
a
> self-forfeiting nightmare as more and more attention is focused on it.
>
> Todd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
