Who ARE these people who keep shelling out money for open source
apps? Are they from outer space?
No, just unfamiliar with the idea of researching a product & pricing
before they buy.
People have been conditioned to believe that good software must be
expensive software and that free software must be full of malware,
spyware and viruses. You cannot fault people for thinking this way when
you look at the computing world they have to face. We need to take this
all into consideration when we explain to people that OpenOffice.org is
free to download and free to use. For a large portion of the
population, this is the very first time they have encountered open
source software. It is a chance that we can educate them without making
them feel dumb about it. Maybe we can help them make those first steps
to breaking free from Microsoft vendor lock-in and see that there really
are choices for office software, and even operating systems.
C.
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Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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