On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:33:57 -0700 Andy Brown <andy@the-martin-byrd.net> wrote:
On Wed Oct 13 2010 15:21:08 GMT-0700 (PDT) Manfred Usselmann wrote:On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:33:19 +0300 Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@googlemail.com> wrote:This was on the news recently, see ars technica for a good analysis, http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/microsoft-posts-video-of-customers-criticizing-openoffice.ars It is a Microsoft video to scare people away from open-source and OpenOffice.org.Wow, this is really incredible how they try to influence and scare people in such vicious way.Will this thing help to get Oracle to react on the Document Foundation and LibreOffice?How? Oracle Open Office is based on that evil thing called OpenOffice.org, which will harm you in any possible way and soon even start eating your children.This puts me in mind of the "Political ads" running here in the United States right now. Smear the opposition at all cost. May the other 'guy' look worse that you are. At least they go the name right, including the .org. :>
a form of advertising which is - strangely enough - acceptable in the US but not over here in Europe (at least not in Austria and Germany). The outcry about the video from the people I know here was enormeous. No wonder Microsoft decided to delete all comments and not accept new ones... The "funny" thing about the ad was: Every single argument can be turned 180° and used against them... Klaus -- Klaus Doblmann B.A. - FSF member #7570 Blog: http://straightrazorguy.net PGP-Key: http://dokla.net/pgp_key.asc http://twitter.com/klausdoblmann http://www.libreoffice.org - die FREIE Bürosuite! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to marketing+help@libreoffice.org List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.