On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 20:31 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
That's mostly due to M$ bundling Word with new machines to drive WP out of the market (making Word *appear* to be free, whereas WP would cost extra.)
The whole purpose of this, of course, was to eliminate a very popular cross-platform application, thereby driving everyone into Windows whether they wanted to be there or not.
Devil's advocate here:
I wonder what a pay-for-it software company thinks of Linux distros including 'free' apps automatically? It must do to them what MS did to WP and others. If MS was smart, they would make a Linux version of Word that must be purchased just so they could take Linux distros to court for including things like OO. Make Linux distros stop including all this free software that is locking folk into Linux. :)
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True, the fact that Linux distro's install a lot of usefull programs by default could be seen as such. However: it is not feasible to offer an OS that doesn't offer things as browsing and text processing out of the box. The default browsers and text processsors are, however, platform independant, and do not lock you to Linux. Also the target is not to suppress the other browsers and text processors: If Seamonkey is found superiour to Firefox by enough users they will switch, or a distro wil emerge having SeaMonkey as default. Micro$oft will not change their defaults, whether the users think another program is better or not. They will continue enforcing their software. That's the major difference Neil -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org