Hi Chad, > It's not like Luxative Office is the only one doing this. In my > local Office Max, I saw "Perfect Office Pro" or something like > that. A Nice retail box of OpenOffice.org for only $19.95. If > you look at the screenshots on the box, you can clearly see where > it says "OpenOffice.org 1.1.1" in the title bar.
If you find a link for this, and wanna send it to me, that would be great. I'll google it, too. > I think it's a > Good Thing (tm). I don't think it's a scam. How is it any > different than the countless *n*x distros that change the name of > OpenOffice.org Writer to "Word Processor" or Calc to > "Spreadsheet" or even "MyDistroNix Office" or whatever. It's > still open source. It's still open format. It's still *not* > Microsoft. +1 We would like to have people give back to the community, but IMHO, having office suites for sale adds to the commoditization of MSO, which will break the monopoly, which will open up the field for competition, and THAT is the digital tipping point. > > I'd prefer someone to pay $20 for OpenOffice.org - no matter the > name - than $150- $500 for MSO. Heck, I'd think it would be > better come someone to pay $19.95 for "Perfect Print Office > Professional" or "Luxative Office 2006" than pirate MSO for free. +1 I guess there is also a question of OOo license compliance, though. But IMHO, that is also not as important as reaching the digital tipping point by breaking the monopoly. It seems to me that very little can go forward while the monopoly still exists.
