Good Morning all
Googling <Open Office> brings up the openoffice.org site as first listed.
Googling <OpenOffice> bring up as first listed a
sponsored link.
<http://suite-2008.com/index.asp?aff=007&camp=gg_office_uk&se=google&gclid=CJr26M2M6ZECFQxTQgodLBkJfA>
The latter gives no indication at the outset
there will be a charge for the download ...
except the give away of a Support tab.
Is there anything the Big Guns can do about that?
Sneaky to say the least.
Yours aye
Ike Dawson
Teesdale, Co Durham
At 19:34 28/02/2008, you wrote:
I fully agree with ccornell. Making people to
feel dumb is WRONG..... both here and in real life.
One thought... why does so many people surf in
to "the wrong" site that cost them money...
and how is those people able to find this
mail-forum _*after *_they bought an CD/download
for 29:95 or something like that.
I tried to Google OpenOffice and I get hits that
directed me to www.openoffice.org.
I think that most of the people that are going
to www.openoffice.com ets., and at least at this
site (www.openoffice.com) they had "Free 24/7
technical support" as one of the special features.
So why don´t they try to get support there?
I´m sure that the "dot-com adress" is something
people think is the "right" site and they surf in and buy an download....
1. These people _*can´t know*_ that the right site has an dot-org
extension. Here it is important that OO.o community is more
visible in media, ads, etc, so people will recognice OpenOffice
and they will come to the right site.
2. These people _*can´t know*_ that OpenOffice don´t cost anything,
´cause they surfed in to the wrong place and bought an download,
paying for it.
More ads in media??? Is that a solution ??? Not
sure, but if the community isn´t visible, people don´t find the site..
Best regards
// Per
ccornell - OpenOffice.org skrev:
People have been conditioned to believe that
good software must be expensive software and
that free software must be full of malware,
spyware and viruses. You cannot fault people
for thinking this way when you look at the
computing world they have to face. We need to
take this all into consideration when we
explain to people that OpenOffice.org is free
to download and free to use. For a large
portion of the population, this is the very
first time they have encountered open source
software. It is a chance that we can educate
them without making them feel dumb about
it. Maybe we can help them make those first
steps to breaking free from Microsoft vendor
lock-in and see that there really are choices
for office software, and even operating systems.
C.
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