Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice in MacWorld Australia

On 11/10/12 23:48, Andreas Säger wrote:
> Windows users can run MS Office easily and for little money (if any). 
> Why should they use LibreOffice if all they want is cheap MS Office? 
> Idealism? Masochism?
They can also run WordPerfect, Lotus Smartsuite, Abiword and a number of 
other applications. Why should you be so anti Windows users running LO?
The cheapest version of MS Office in the UK is Home and Student and 
costs about £75. The free version (Office Starter) is crippled adware 
(and only contains Word and Excel anyway), and that only comes with a 
machine that has a trial version of Office 2010 installed. You can't 
download it from anywhere.
Surely it's better to get them running LO rather than a crippled version 
of proprietary software? When I post in the MS Answers forums in reply 
to certain questions I always suggest that if they can't afford to 
upgrade to the latest Office version, that they have a look at LO. One 
or two MVPs do this as well.
Once Windows users begin to realise that they don't NEED MS Office 
products, then it's only a short step to not needing Windows at all. :-)

Registered Linux User no 240308
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