Common misconceptions: Just a few off the top of my head. Linux is difficult to install Once popular Linux will be as badly affected by viruses as Windows is now OpenOffice.org has no database MS XML is open Documents produced in OpenOffice.org will be incompatible with MSO If I install OO.o it will stop MSO from working properly Files produced in OO.o running on Linux will not be compatible with OO.o running on Windows. The total cost of ownership of OpenOffice.org is higher than that for MSO.
Regards, -- Ian --- Bruce Byfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Bruce Byfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:28:15 -0800 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [social] Want to know about open source? Go to Microsoft Jacqueline McNally wrote: > It is a common misconception that OOo only works on Linux. Perhaps we > need to state more clearly that nearly 70% of our current users have OOo > on a Windows platform? Do you have any other common misconceptions that need to be corrected? If I can get about a dozen, I might have an article that Newsforge would take. Anyone else care to contribute misconceptions? -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield
