Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

While its interesting to get different perspectives from around the globe, 
I'm not sure we'll agree on the principal tasks of government, so I'll leave 
that subject and return to the computer side of things.

Without trying to defend MS, it can only dominate markets that customers 
allow it to dominate. Nobody is forced to purchase MS products. They do so 
because, for whatever reason, they perceive that MS serves their needs. One 
of those needs is file compatibility with others, which by its nature, 
allows MS sales to feed on themselves. The more people buy MS products, the 
more people need to buy MS products to communicate with all the others who 
went before.

Perhaps it's also a function of job security for IT managers. Back in the 
'80s, the saying was that, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM products." 
My guess is that, today, you can replace "IBM" in that phrase with 
"Microsoft."

Virgil

-----Original Message----- 
From: M Henri Day
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 3:15 PM
To: VA
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

2012/11/19 VA <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>

> At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is my government
> dictating to me what kind of file format to use on my documents.
>
> Virgil

At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is a multi-national
corporation, responsible to no one save a few major shareholders and/or top
executives, which, due to its domination of the market, can effectively
render it manditory for me to use its proprietary file format....

Regulation of markets, so that they remain as free and accessible as
possible, is one of the principle tasks of government....

Henri

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