<soapbox> The distain goes both ways. Remember that Stave Ballmer called open source software (specifically Linux) a cancer. Microsoft has a long history of passing similar opinions about FLOSS as fact and using their monopoly status to cull any competition. Why can you not buy a computer that is already configured to dual boot? Or why is it so difficult to buy a computer with no operating system? Microsoft has decreed to computer manufacturers not to do so or they will not get Windows at such ridiculous prices. Libre Office and other FLOSS software is not born out of distain for MS and other closed source software. they exist because the people who create, enhance, and maintain them are passionate about what they do and the freedom that FLOSS gives to users. The distain comes along the way as big companies such as MS and Oracle use cheap and underhanded tactics to try negate and destroy what they do. To be honest, there are some things that MS Office does much better than LO and other FLOSS Office suites. I personally refuse to purchase MS Office for personal reasons and will do what I can to help people realize that they do not need MS products (share ware or otherwise) and safe themselves from the constant purchase of the same software over and over. </soapbox>
John Kennedy (_8(|) http://www.shepherdrescue.org Why would anyone foster a dog/cat? I would rather cry watching them leave our home to live a life of happiness and joy in a loving home than cry because no one stepped up to help them and they died alone, frightened, and sad in a shelter. "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." -Thomas Henry Huxley On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Virgil Arrington <cuyfa...@hotmail.com>wrote: I'm no fan of MS, and I'm sure I don't fully understand all of its business > practices, but I truly hope that disdain for Redmond is not the primary > motivation for LO and other forms of FOSS. And, yet, it's a theme that > recurs on nearly every FOSS related forum I read. > > IMHO, it's better to focus on what's good about LO than what's evil about > MS. > > Virgil > > Software > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
