On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 01:56 +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:Too bad that they sell in the US only, while OpenOffice is used worldwide (and no, not everyone gets paid in $)...
Check out sub300.com. I believe they ship worldwide.
I was attempting to point out that assumtions about computer affordability based on what is going on in the US are not that helpful when talking about an internation product like OOo.
Yes, computers are cheap in the US. However, for people who live outside the US, and don't earn ther living in USD, they can be rather expensive. For example, when thinking about a 200 USD computer, the avarage wage in Israel is about 6000NIS a month (the minimum wage is slightly more then 3200 NIS a month), which is comes to be around 1300 USD (and 725 USD for minumum wage). 200 USD from that is not a small sum at all.
And even if a site ships outside the US (and most don't ship things like a computer outside the US, since the shipping costs are pretty high), one will still need an internation credit card to buy the computer. By default, the VISA people get here (Israel) is valid for Israel only.
Again, my comments are not about specifics, but as a response to a reply a user asking about OOo and old computers got saying more-or-less "I don't see why we should bother supporting old computers, when a new one costs 200 USD".
/me just tends to get annoyed when in international software lists people assume everyone lives in the US
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