Bankruptcy? Any office that can't afford P25K for a couple of years is not making much anyway and should in fact look for cheaper alternatives. Considering the productivity gain from effective software, 25K is actually quite cheap.
-----Original Message----- From: Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:48:05 +0800 Subject: Re: Re: [plug] Re: Linux trends in the Philippines On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:20:27 +0800, Ricky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beg to differ. Most offices could afford the P25,000 for MS Office. They > simply choose not to because they are aware of illegal aleternatives. Home > users have plenty of tools available (including Open Office for Windows) at a > reasonable price. Not really. Spilling out $500 for one machine is already painful enough - multiply that by the number of machines to install MS Office, repeat the process every few years and you're looking for a fast way to bankruptcy. That's not yet including new licenses (which costs around $300 - or you can go the $200 route for OEM installations but you upgrade your hardware as well...) > I agree however that effective enforcement would make it easier for > alternative software to be appreciated. This is going to be one real tough battle. Contraband software hurts both open source and proprietary software sectors. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph .. To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug .. Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
