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

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From: planas <jslozier@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 4:28:00
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

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! ;)
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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.

Jay Lozier
Jslozier@gmail.com


Hi :)
unfortunately hardware vendors profit from selling MS pre-installed and the more 
junk they can have pre-installed the more they profit.  MS sells them special 
licences to install at a discount bargain rate.  If hardware vendors put Free 
Software on instead then their profit margins would be lower.

If you try to buy something with NO software on it then the hardware actually 
costs more so people buy stuff that already had MS pre-installed even if they 
don't want to use it and then wipe the MS stuff to install Linux or Bsd or 
something.

This sounds completely mad to me.  It's one way that MS can claim such high 
figures when we know that linux usage is so much higher than MS sponsored 
surveys show.
Regards from
Tom :)

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