Re: [Marketing] Re: Marketshare Memes (was Interesting study about price sensitivity of students)

2007-10-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 18:50 -0700, NoOp wrote: That said, the largest stumbling block to OOo's lack of market share isn't price, file compatibility, or other issues raised in the article. Instead it's the continued lack of a proper support staff and ease of upgrades/updates. Yes, if the

[Marketing] Re: Marketshare Memes (was Interesting study about price sensitivity of students)

2007-10-12 Thread NoOp
On 10/12/2007 11:44 AM, Edward Buck wrote: The only reason why Firefox doesn't suffer from this problem is that the alternative is free too, e.g. IE. Not necessarily. It also depends heavily on what is installed by default with the OS. For example, in a DesktopLinux.com survey/poll of August