Re: [discuss] MS lochs down Scots Police deal - II

2005-08-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:49 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: As I'm always one for conspiracy theories, let me suggest the following ... I'm much more inclined to believe in the power of ignorance, and lack of long term vision. -- Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZMSL

Re: [discuss] MS lochs down Scots Police deal - II

2005-08-23 Thread Lars D . Noodén
I'm not much for conspiracy theories either, anything that requires much planning or accuracy is doomed. It's been hard to find articles that are more than just re-writes of the Register piece (or whatever they used). However, it does seem that a common theme in the earlier articles was

Re: [discuss] MS lochs down Scots Police deal - II

2005-08-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 03:38 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: I'm not much for conspiracy theories either, anything that requires much planning or accuracy is doomed. It's been hard to find articles that are more than just re-writes of the Register piece (or whatever they used). However, it

Re: [discuss] FREE?

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Dion, I work in a Chinese school as computer administrator and I want to help our management in how to reduce the expenses in buying Microsoft Office. You came to the right place. :-) I'm just curios about the license of Open Office before I go to anywhere else. I like to ask is...

Re: [discuss] MS lochs down Scots Police deal - II

2005-08-23 Thread Christian Einfeldtextra
IMHO, someone who is a reporter and on the ground should spent some time trying to find out what was behind this decision. Like Ian, I suspect mere laziness and misunderstanding and fear. I also don't buy the interoperability argument UNLESS the cops are planning to buy more MS integration later

[discuss] White Smoke

2005-08-23 Thread Christian Einfeldtextra
Hi, I just found out about this product. It is basically a grammar checker on steroids. I would have ignored it, except for the fact that it claims to have a patent pending on its grammar checker functions. Of course, it is only compatible with Word and Outlook. The whole thing looks

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Sebastian Luque wrote: How can it be ok to sell and distribute something that is free? Can somebody please explain? If I give you a product under a particular copyright license, you are free to distribute it under the terms of that license. If that license says that charging money is ok,

[discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-23 Thread Sebastian Luque
Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If I give you a product under a particular copyright license, you are free to distribute it under the terms of that license. If that license says that charging money is ok, then it's ok. And the ammount of money I charge you for the original