On 30 Nov 2013, at 4:32 pm, M. Fioretti <mfiore...@nexaima.net> wrote:
> > (*) where "give it away for free" doesn't mean only "free trial > periods". It also means keeping the software very easy to pirate so > people learn it at home and then throw a tantrum if their company > (that can't use pirated software) tries to migrate to something else Hi Marco, This is a very important observation. Whether deliberately cultivated or not, the near universal practice of stealing, or quietly being given, a copy of an employer's software meant that MS Office products gained near-ubiquity. If people writing documents on their private computers had been obliged to but a copy of MS Office, alternatives would have been embraced much more enthusiastically. We would not have seen, as an example, demands to provide documents in MS Word format when providing a CV. I believe that at some time in the future, former MS executives will reveal that theft was a vital element in MS' strategy for their Office products during the world colonisation phase. Peter West ...he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
