John McCreesh wrote: > "...until now, most people have tended to dismiss the open source office > project as a distant runner-up to Microsoft Office, and certainly not a > serious contender. Microsoft obviously feels otherwise, which means that > OpenOffice.org is clearly doing something right." > > http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2712&blogid=14
A noteworthy requirement of this position is "engaging with Open Source communities and organizations". So our community must have a better way to deal with shills and manipulated individuals. The abuse that Ubuntu has been getting, via mono 'volunteers', is one example. Along the same lines, the same movement is sponsoring student shills to hit conferences: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/15/microsoft-recruits-student-bloggers-with-free-software-and-trips-to-conferences/ So between the two articles, the conclusion is that any promotion of M$ technologies tags the defender as either a shill or collaborator. OOo hits M$ in one of its three money makers: the monopoly on office formats. If we could make inroads into the second area, the monopoly on OEMs, that would be a real coupe. Regards, /Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
