Not quite so sure I would agree with that one Dave. I supported a Fortune 100 at one point, and they spent a bundle on MS Office licenses to be sure. They also paid site licenses for all their Windows servers. At the time, Server came with 5 seats. On Apr 17, 2011 10:53 PM, "Dave Stevens" <g...@uniserve.com> wrote: > Quoting planas <jsloz...@gmail.com>: > >> On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 21:41 -0400, Wayne Borean wrote: >> >>> In that case, you can see where I'm leading the conversation, and why my >>> concept of 'Free Software Darwinism' could be really important to us, and >>> scary as hell to Microsoft. >>> >>> Wayne >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, plino <pedl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > @Wayne >>> > >>> > Being a biologist, I find your Evolution parallel quite interesting. >>> > >>> > Answering your previous question: of course IBM has it's own flavour of >>> > Office (based on OpenOffice in fact): it's called IBM Lotus Symphony >>> > http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/products >>> > >>> > Enjoy! ;) > > almost no-one buys windows software from MS, it comes preinstalled, > mostly by manufacturers, but often by resellers. Any analysis of Linux > SW uptake considerations that doesn't take into account the games MS > plays with distributors is seriously lacking. > > Dave > > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > View this message in context: >>> > >>> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Ellison-s-Oracle-washes-hands-of-OpenOffice-tp2826546p2832723.html >>> > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org >>> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ >>> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>> > deleted >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> Wayne >> >> I would think some the hardware vendors would promote FOSS more. They >> can benefit from the hardware sales. I can see why MS hates FOSS, they >> are almost a pure software vendor and FOSS hurts their sales. >> -- >> Jay Lozier >> jsloz...@gmail.com >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot >> be deleted >> > > > > -- > "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." > Krishnamurti > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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