Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

On 30 Nov 2013, at 4:32 pm, M. Fioretti <mfioretti@nexaima.net> wrote:

> (*) where "give it away for free" doesn't mean only "free trial
> periods". It also means keeping the software very easy to pirate so
> people learn it at home and then throw a tantrum if their company
> (that can't use pirated software) tries to migrate to something else

Hi Marco,

This is a very important observation. Whether deliberately cultivated or not, the near universal 
practice of stealing, or quietly being given, a copy of an employer's software meant that MS Office 
products gained near-ubiquity.  If people writing documents on their private computers had been 
obliged to but a copy of MS Office, alternatives would have been embraced much more 
enthusiastically. We would not have seen, as an example, demands to provide documents in MS Word 
format when providing a CV.

I believe that at some time in the future, former MS executives will reveal that theft was a vital 
element in MS' strategy for their Office products during the world colonisation phase.

Peter West

...he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins.



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