Tuna wrote: > JD Austin wrote: > >> Yep.. you're preaching to the choir :) >> With all the companies trying to do budget cuts imagine how much they'd >> save using Open Office as a standard on new computers that is if they're >> buying new computers. >> >> > > No wai! That would be too much like those French sissies, and *nobody* > wants to be like them! ;) > Where I work - Universal Laser Systems - I was pleasantly surprised to see that they put OpenOffice on my new notebook rather than MS Office. A sensible move, but definitely a surprise in an MS-dominated world. Vaughn > (If you don't know what I'm talking about, find "France" on this chart: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Market_Share_Analysis) > > The real problem is that nobody wants to trust something that you get > for free. There's a certain irrational sense of security to be had by > paying for something rather than downloading it from the internet. > People will always trust their instincts, no matter how arbitrary they > may be, before an actual, educated opinion. Go figure. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss