On 10/25/05, Gregory L. Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hey John, let's call the two cars the M$ car and the OO car.


<snip long parable of the 2 cars>

But, if you need features that only the MS car has - like a 305 Horsepower
engine, or a 3 ton towing capacity, or better gas mileage (and, yes, MS does
get better performance with less system usage) - then, the choice is
obvious, you buy the MS car. Or if your boss demands a 10-year, 100,000 Mile
factory warentee - then, the choice is obvious - you buy the MS Car. Or if
you need a DTP-GPS, then, the choice is obvious, you buy the MS car.

There are plenty of reasons for people to choose MS over OOo. Please, don't
make it sound like "the choice is obvious" that you should *ALWAYS* chose
OOo, and are an idiot for doing otherwise. MS Office works, and works well
most of the time, and can do plenty that OOo can't. (Just as OOo can do some
things MSO can't do, like Vector graphics, PDF export, and Flash export,
although MSO is getting PDF export in its next version.) The point is, there
are reasons for both products to exist, and reasons for intelligent people
to choose to use either.

This analogy is getting way stretched out and out-of-hand.

-Chad Smith

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