Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research Development

2006-01-10 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hello Don, DC Parris wrote: Greetings! I am responding to an article that claims Microsoft invests $50b/year in RD - as if the libre software community doesn't invest in RD. I believe it does. Can the OOo team help me quantify what gets invested in RD? I am also contacting some other major

Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research Development

2006-01-10 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 23:41 -0500, DC Parris wrote: Greetings! I am responding to an article that claims Microsoft invests $50b/year in RD - as if the libre software community doesn't invest in RD. I believe it does. Can the OOo team help me quantify what gets invested in RD? I am also

Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research Development

2006-01-10 Thread DC Parris
On Tue, January 10, 2006 13:42, John McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 23:41 -0500, DC Parris wrote: Greetings! I am responding to an article that claims Microsoft invests $50b/year in RD - as if the libre software community doesn't invest in RD. I believe it does. Can the OOo team

Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research Development

2006-01-10 Thread Simon Phipps
On Jan 11, 2006, at 02:24, Steven Shelton wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: I was with you at the beginning of that, Don, but I'm surprised to hear you saying free RD given what you've written on LXer recently. It's not free/gratis. It costs every one of us time, many of us money as well. As

Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research Development

2006-01-10 Thread Steven Shelton
Simon Phipps wrote: I was with you at the beginning of that, Don, but I'm surprised to hear you saying free RD given what you've written on LXer recently. It's not free/gratis. It costs every one of us time, many of us money as well. As the cost of the R D is not bourne by a single entity,

[Marketing] Extras installer

2006-01-10 Thread KamiHĂ­r
Hello Louis! Thanks to Alex, Mike! and everyone else! I think getting an installer for the extras would be terrific, and would be happy to post it to a to-dos page on the distribution project. Cheers Louis -- I did two task about this... The first was an installer (created with INNOSETUP)

Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research Development

2006-01-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Don, DC Parris wrote: Greetings! I am responding to an article that claims Microsoft invests $50b/year in RD - as if the libre software community doesn't invest in RD. I believe it does. Can the OOo team help me quantify what gets invested in RD? I am also contacting some other major