On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 19:56 -0400, Don Parris wrote:
[snip]
In my book, Penguin in the Pew (a.k.a., PitP), I have a table
demonstrating that the amount of productivity lost (on average), due
to
adjusting to the differences between Msft Office and OpenOffice.org,
is
really not all that
swhiser wrote:
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Microsoft is steaming
Paula Rooney
The press is playing it only through the Microsoft frame...this misses
the point almost entirely. There seems to be no escaping that people
see Technology through their understanding of a) Microsoft as
Any responses to arguments set forth by
Microsoft, et. al., should avoid the emotional dialogue, and focus on
the technical merits of Mass' decision.
Technical or economic merits. While MS might say it will cost MA to
retrain staff, this is a one off short term investment for a long term
Ian Lynch wrote:
Any responses to arguments set forth by
Microsoft, et. al., should avoid the emotional dialogue, and focus on
the technical merits of Mass' decision.
Thank you Don and Ian for your comments...
Technical or economic merits. While MS might say it will cost MA to
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 11:22 -0400, swhiser wrote:
The FUD will be loud and it (we) will embarass them, because people get
this now.
Question: Would it be feasible to set up a petition of MS customers who
would like them to adopt ODF as the default in the next version of
office?
--
Ian Lynch
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 11:22 -0400, swhiser wrote:
The FUD will be loud and it (we) will embarass them, because people get
this now.
Question: Would it be feasible to set up a petition of MS customers who
would like them to adopt ODF as the default in the next
swhiser wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
Any responses to arguments set forth by Microsoft, et. al., should
avoid the emotional dialogue, and focus on the technical merits of
Mass' decision.
Thank you Don and Ian for your comments...
Technical or economic merits. While MS might say it
