I'm pretty sure that most of the users end up putting a pirated copy of ms office on their pc in the end but I did encounter a couple of situations were the user thought they were using ms office and were infact using OOo ...The pressure from school teachers to conform with what they had at school however pushes parents to end up buying or borrowing ms office...
M On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Jean Azzopardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about OpenOffice? Is it really being included with many computers? > In Bargain magazine I often see OpenOffice being included, ostensibly > because it lowers the price. > > Does anyone know what happens afterwards? Does the costumer remain with > OpenOffice or does s/he install MS Office instead? > > I think if we start focusing on the application side, then we can move > on to the OS side. Make people recognise the advantages of Firefox (easy > sell, and most people already know about it), and of Open Office. > (Harder sell, for obvious reasons). > > Then there's GIMP, audacity, and a host of other FOSS applications that > one could recommend > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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