My own personal viewpoint is a lot simpler.
We started off noting that a Microsoft spokesman was explaining why MSO
would always be better than OO.
That is the main thing. How to read it? Perhaps not that Microsoft is
quaking in its boots over the thought of OpenOffice taking over, but
certainly that Microsoft is concerned about the possibility that
OpenOffice might take some bite, however small, out of their market.
It means that Microsoft feels it has to take OpenOffice at least a
little serious.
Will we overrun MSO? Not this year, not next, not for a long time.
But we will be an irritant for them, for sure, and for a long time.
After all, it'll be awful hard to force OpenOffice into bankruptcy, or
for MS to buy it out.
I took the trip away from MS four years ago, through several varieties
of Linux. Anybody asks, I'll tell them how much better I like it, but I
don't do the soapbox routine preaching that MS is the Great Satan. But
come to think of it...
Nah, who needs the flame?
JimW
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