Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

Quoting planas <jslozier@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 <pedlino@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


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> 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.
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