Fred A. Miller wrote:
Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office
<http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=440183855-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5>
For the last three years, I've been using a version of OpenOffice.org on
all of my systems. I'm sad to say that I'm going to move back to Office
2007 on Windows XP and Office 2008 on Mac OS X this week.
and this is posted here why ...? I don't see anything in this article
that the OOo users or developers could possibly use. Was this FYI, of
OOo being in the news? Otherwise, all it appears to engender is the
notion that the OOo user/ developer community can do is to throw in the
towel & become MS employees for the latest MS non-backward compatible
product. OK ... that's it, that's the end of (F)OSS because Daniel
Kusnetzky is going to (re)start using MS Office. <gasp>
There isn't much in the way of useful feedback here, merely a
confirmation of the if-one-(client/ buddy/
whomever)-uses-the-latest-MS-gizmo-the-rest-of-the-computing-world-needs-to-follow-suit
mentality. This kind of posting helps to reinforce the MS hegemony of
the user IT world. << As an OT aside and at risk of a flame-war, the
idea that "Google is your friend" is absolute BS too - from a civil
rights perspective, that is. Support Scroogle.org - at least it has
data security at its heart and pressure them to develop subject specific
searches like */bsd */linux, etc. >>
In any event, this kind of posting simply plays into the anxiety that
one is behind an illusory IT 8-ball and failing. I'd far rather back
the (F)OSS approach to my computing needs any day of the week than rely
on a private corporation that uses my data for its profit extension
strategy. But hey - goodbye Mr Kusnetzky, only you can decide to not
chase the dragon.
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