Dotan Cohen wrote:
<lots of good stuff that helped me understand />
They are not looking for something that you missed. They are looking
for something that you found. They are looking for an email client.
They do not know that Thunderbird or any other email client exists.
OOo needs to say "Hey! We know that MSO had an email client, but we
don't. Go try Thunderbird or $otherEmailClient".
I now understand where this is coming from :-)
Being tied to IT and computers since before I was weaned I just never
thought about the user who doesn't know about something called an "Email
client". Thanks. That has opened my eyes significantly.
+1 to the collaborative marketing suggestion between TB and OOo.
In another reply you said:
Actually, she doesn't care. She is trained to think that viruses are a
normal, expected part of computing. It drives me nuts. MS does this on
purpose, to support the antimalware industry, which in turn supports
MS by not recommending secure operating systems and applications.
Because if people used secure software, then the antimalware industry
itself would become irrelevant. It's all a money machine, to get the
user to buy more software, and then to buy more expensive hardware to
run it all.
I wholeheartedly agree. Concise and to the point!
On a slightly different note but certainly related, I was very heartened
this weekend. After going to party of "40 somethings" - many of them
whom I would not have expected to - were quite familiar with OOo and
generally interested in the whole Open Source proposition :-)
I've mentioned it on my blog - link below.
Cheers
Al
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