Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

[Anthony Easthope <antisocky@myopera.com>]

When at home it is a case of using LO but when at work and school it is
a matter of using Mo as that is what everybody else uses.

I prefer to use LO for the simplicity that it has attached with it. I
remember being taught as a 5 year old to use MO 2003 and becoming quite
proficient in its use. Now as a High School Student I was forced to
crack MO for the first few years as I had no Knowledge of LO. Now since
I have made the switch I have not looked back as NZ now has severe
copyright laws in which I was breaching.

Long live Open Source!

Anthony

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, at 11:26 PM, T Hopkins wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> 
> > The problem doesn't seem to be so much with management not wanting to change - it seems to be with fear of the IT dept. 
> 
> There are very sound reasons that businesses are conservative. 
> Businesses don't like change because change costs money.  You don't argue
> for change by saying something is "just as good" or "not as bad as you
> think."  You must argue that change is BETTER than not changing and will
> ultimate increase productivity, which increases profits.
> 
> The difference in cost of the initial license, when considered from the
> full deployment/productivity calculation of an IT manager, is often not
> the deciding factor.  The primary cost of changing software is not the
> license, but installation, configuration, training, and lost productivity
> during conversion.  If you put all of this on a balance sheet for a
> company that is currently using MS Office, the cost of "upgrading" the
> existing software is often much lower than the cost of changing new
> software, even when that new standard has a free license.  
> 
> Cheers,
>              tod
> 
> Tod Hopkins
> Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
> 
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