Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-19 Thread John McCreesh
On Tue, April 18, 2006 16:33, Lars D. Noodén wrote: MS is continuing to step up activities of BSA around the world, both in places like Sweden and Pakistan: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2006-daily/18-04-2006/business/b11.htm And China:

Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-19 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, John McCreesh wrote: And China: http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39158140,00.htm As an admirer of Thinkpad laptops, I find this news particularly annoying... Actually we can probably use that. Despite what the headlines have recently stated saying, MS has

Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-19 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:29 +0600, John McCreesh wrote: On Tue, April 18, 2006 16:33, Lars D. Noodén wrote: MS is continuing to step up activities of BSA around the world, both in places like Sweden and Pakistan: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2006-daily/18-04-2006/business/b11.htm

[Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-18 Thread Lars D . Noodén
MS is continuing to step up activities of BSA around the world, both in places like Sweden and Pakistan: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2006-daily/18-04-2006/business/b11.htm What kind of ways can we ride on this and use it to promote OpenOffice.org? Presumably in places like Sweden

Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 06:33 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: MS is continuing to step up activities of BSA around the world, both in places like Sweden and Pakistan: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2006-daily/18-04-2006/business/b11.htm What kind of ways can we ride on this and use it to

Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-18 Thread Isabelle Boulet
Lars D. Noodén wrote: MS is continuing to step up activities of BSA around the world, both in places like Sweden and Pakistan: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2006-daily/18-04-2006/business/b11.htm What kind of ways can we ride on this and use it to promote OpenOffice.org? by saying that

Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-18 Thread John McCreesh
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 06:33 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: MS is continuing to step up activities of BSA around the world, both in places like Sweden and Pakistan: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2006-daily/18-04-2006/business/b11.htm What kind of ways can we ride on this and use it to

Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-18 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, John McCreesh wrote: [snip] One good answer to why.openoffice.org is because the alternative is Microsoft... In the past, I've discouraged active MS-bashing in our marketing - companies and politicians who do nothing but knock the opposition don't do themselves any favours

Re: [Marketing] Riding on MS' BSA activities?

2006-04-18 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Isabelle Boulet wrote: by saying that OpenOffice.org licences are free and that businesses that have installed OOo enjoy perfect peace of mind in the eventuality of a BSA audit. Nor do they need to overestimate their requirements to ensure that they stay legal (ie buy more