OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

[Vaughn Treude]

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.
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