On 09/19/2012 11:56 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: > > No, it is not a good idea to take a break. > > But it is time to tell those people who do use MSO that they are > changing their pricing policy and almost forcing their users to rent > their products in the near future. > > It is time that the users start thinking about their long term use of > MS's Office and other business software. You no longer will be able > to buy their products in any reasonable price, for MS that is, and not > know if you rent it for X dollars for the first year, it will not go > up to 150% of X dollars in year two. You will then have to pay their > "ransom" or you loose the ability to use the software on your computer. > > Then there is the multi-license discount - or should it be the end of > the multi-license discount. Businesses with 50 or 100 computers will > be required to but a single user license for every computer at $150+ > per license. The rental agreement plan is not that much better of an > option. > > So now you can say that every computer they own can have a copy of LO > for free. Every updated or new version of LO will be free, unlike > MSO's policy. No need to rent or buy anything office suite package > anymore. FREE now and FREE in the future. > > MSO just wants to force a user to pay them over and over for the same > software, for as long as you live. Then when you die, you heirs will > be forced to pay MS's blood money for the rest of their lives. This > maybe a good plan as a revenue generation, but not for the users.
I think MS renting MSO is a golden opportunity for some marketing; particularly in the US. <snip> -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
