Greetings! My name is Butch Cañares and I live in Cebu City, Philippines. I am a lawyer by profession and work in my own small law office with my wife as my assistant. Open office has been a great help for me in my work and I have been espousing its use as an alternative to Microsoft products. I would like to be able to further campaign for the use of open office, particularly in government offices and small businesses considering that Microsoft here has been successful in brainwashing people in the use of their software obviously for their own commercial benefit without considering the economic conditions of my country. It's time someone here aggressively promote its use.
What I plan to do is freely distribute CD installers of Open Office to anyone who cares to use them and in my spare time, go to government offices and promote its use. I'm willing to spend my own money to produce the CD's and I won't charge a thing for this as my way of contributing to it's development and awareness. I need to know how I can make this possible and if there are others like me in other countries who are doing the same thing for me to contact. Thank you and Merry Christmas. Yours truly, Butch Cañares
