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

Not quite so sure I would agree with that one Dave. I supported a Fortune
100 at one point, and they spent a bundle on MS Office licenses to be sure.
They also paid site licenses for all their Windows servers. At the time,
Server came with 5 seats.
On Apr 17, 2011 10:53 PM, "Dave Stevens" <geek@uniserve.com> wrote:
> 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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