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From: planas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 4:28:00
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 21:41 -0400, Wayne Borean wrote:
> In that case, you can see where I'm leading the conversation, and why my
> concept of 'Free Software Darwinism' could be really important to us, and
> scary as hell to Microsoft.
>
> Wayne
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> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, plino <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > @Wayne
> >
> > Being a biologist, I find your Evolution parallel quite interesting.
> >
> > Answering your previous question: of course IBM has it's own flavour of
> > Office (based on OpenOffice in fact): it's called IBM Lotus Symphony
> > http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/products
> >
> > Enjoy! ;)
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Wayne
I would think some the hardware vendors would promote FOSS more. They
can benefit from the hardware sales. I can see why MS hates FOSS, they
are almost a pure software vendor and FOSS hurts their sales.
Jay Lozier
[email protected]
Hi :)
unfortunately hardware vendors profit from selling MS pre-installed and the
more
junk they can have pre-installed the more they profit. MS sells them special
licences to install at a discount bargain rate. If hardware vendors put Free
Software on instead then their profit margins would be lower.
If you try to buy something with NO software on it then the hardware actually
costs more so people buy stuff that already had MS pre-installed even if they
don't want to use it and then wipe the MS stuff to install Linux or Bsd or
something.
This sounds completely mad to me. It's one way that MS can claim such high
figures when we know that linux usage is so much higher than MS sponsored
surveys show.
Regards from
Tom :)
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