On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM, James Milligan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yeah I'd go with that too. Although I'm not a betting man (kid) > Their whole website is actually very destructive; the implication being that Linux is not accessible to Windows users which is simply not true. I think it's actually rather patronising to suggest that Windows users are incapable of embracing minor differences in an operating system - Apple doesn't try to do it, they're quite happy to try to lure Windows users away from Microsoft with something that is so different from everything else that even I (as an IT person of many years) finds it completely unintuitive. But it seems that folks who "go to Mac" seldom go back, so clearly differences in interface aren't as important to people as clearly these Israeli folks think they are. I believe it's important to promote the packages that are there on their merits, not market them as "cheap versions of your favourite Windows applications". Openoffice has many advantages over Microsoft Office. GIMP is an excellent graphics tool. Evolution and Thunderbird are both great e-mail clients. Surely when people say "a free office suite that does pretty much everything that Microsoft Office does" isn't that deriding the product you're trying to "sell"? Or describe Evolution as a product that does pretty much what Outlook does? They're not promoting Linux -- they're promoting Microsoft, by suggesting in every word they write that what people should aspire to is Microsoft's products, and this is just a way to save some money. Talk about deriding your product. Apple don't do that. They don't say their applications are compatible with Microsoft, because they realise that things don't have to be. That's "so 1990s" ;-) Sean
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