On 7/18/06, Charles Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rogelio Serrano Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:33 PM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: Re: [plug] open source bill On 7/18/06, Charles Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can tell you how to make a sprinkler, can you compete with TYCO? > Chances are you cant, no one can compete with them. Does this mean > they no longer >of course thats not software. i dont have the proper production facilities at my disposal. Let me put it this way, most people with the proper production facilities cant either. Theyre products are just that good. >lets take office software for example. can i compete with microsoft office? of course. How? Not cloning it. and not on windows. and not wimp. Have you tried making one? Star Office competes, wrd perfect competes. They both have low market shares but they compete. They need a lot of work before their products can overtake MS office. The question is are they offering a product that the customer is willing to spend their money on? MS office is over priced. Im an Openoffice user myself due to the prohibitive cost. But people buy MS office because it works for them. There is a choice and peole make choices on what to buy or use. If you want them to use your product then mae it so that there is enough value on it to move to whatever your product is. All my suppliers use MS Office and they are multinationals, I asked why they don't use Openoffice, and they keep coming back to me that it does not suit their needs. Microsoft, HP, Dell all started as small companies they competed and they won. If you can come up with a good product then you can compete.
I agree. Depends on the solution. and cloning ms office like all of them have been doing just dont cut it. even integration the mac way dont cut it. a new solution is needed. a new approach. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
