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The Tuesday 2007-12-11 at 09:34 -0600, Bryen wrote:
A couple of months later, she called me complaining that OpenOffice was
too cumbersome and her daughter was complaining that she didn't
understand it because everything she learned in her elementary school
computer class taught MS Word. We had a little bit of a heated
discussion, and I told her that a) she can't afford MS Office anyway and
That argument doesn't hold in some places, unfortunately. People here are
convinced Windows is free, as in beer, and if it doesn't come included
free, you just get a "pirate" copy from anybody. In the end, free.
I simply can not convince anybody here to use linux or even OOo with the
price argument, I loose. Windows software is free. And, if you are in a
business, the boss pays, and as the boss is by definition always rich, so
it is of no consequence, it is free. And you can borrow a copy for home,
too.
:-(
The rest of the possible arguments are then moot. It is more difficult, it
doesn't have all the whistles, it is not serious, it is not compatible (!),
etc. The best argument in my armory, freedom and zero license cost being
useless to them, the rest is moot.
(Don't argue with me, I'm all for OOo... the problem is "them")
So I remain "the freak" of the group.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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