Hello Konrad, your experience is interesting indeed. I know of some unversity in Poland who advertises FOSS, but I didn't know that the "market" itself was so reluctant to the idea. The idea of security and caution is an interesting one however... Happy New Year, Charles.
Konrad wrote: >On a partially sponsored meeting (only partially, because there is a >little interest in open software in Polish market, because still, >although it is 21c. not many bosses know what a computer is and keep it >at the secretary's desk because it attracts customers' attention. Many >of the company owners think that a free software is an illegal copy or a >demo version of some sort :S When I once said "free software" to one, he >turned purple, then green, then red and responded "no, we have >everything genuine here". Too bad that many of these bosses also think >that the software is genuine if they can obtain it on a bazaar) I told >the guests of my meeting that OpenOffice.org is very safe, because it >asks for every document's script to run or not, and if somebody is >suspicious about the script, he can always check the document in any >text editor, because it's an Open Document compressed in a zip format :) >They enjoyed the idea. Really. > >Konrad > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
