> > Lars, we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
> 
> Ah, OK, spoken like a true apologist. ;)  What's your proposed solution?

Patience, perseverence, and a 20% across-the-board reduction in the size of 
developer egos in the OSS world. The fact is that we do build a lot of products 
that are more effective and productive than what's commercially available. I do 
think there's a big paradigm shift coming over time, but I don't think there's 
going to be a big watershed event. Product momentum is one of those things 
that's actually harder to destroy than to create.

--Jekke

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars D. Noodén [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [users] Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind


On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Lars, we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

Ah, OK, spoken like a true apologist. ;)  What's your proposed solution?

> ... I've been hearing how a development over the horizon is finally 
> going to break Microsoft's hold over the OS/Browser/Office Suite market.

Re-read my post.  I stated nothing about what it will or will not break 
the hold of.  I stated that the cost of moving to OOo is probably cheaper 
than to MSO 2007 and I stated that most users would not notice they were 
using OOo.

> I'm still waiting for something to actually do so. But, I don't think 
> this will be it.

As also stated, MS has not been competing on merit for the better part of 
a decade.  There have always been better tools than MS has offered, 
sometimes light years better, a case in point being Netware + NDS vs 
Windows + AD...

Lock-in and illegal business methods have to be dealt with first.

-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
        Keep the market open by keeping software patents out:
        
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/indprop/patent/consultation_en.htm

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