-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-12-15 at 13:31 +0100, lynn wrote: ...
Hi Clayton. Don't know where you are but in my part of the world that doesn't happen. It's very encouraging though.
No, it varies a lot. I found a coworker that had installed ubuntu on his personal portable, on his own. He is not "technical". And double boots to windows something. I was quite surprised. Another day, a computer maintenance person (windows) was talking on the phone to somebody who complained that on his new computer the "office" had stopped working. When he hung up, I commented to him about installing openoffice instead... and he new what I was talking about. We commented that portables often come with office "demo" preinstalled. It works for a month or two, then one day it stops working and you have to pay the license if you want to use it. Owners are very surprised at this when it pops up. You know why windows is so prevalent here? If you haven't noticed yet, Windows is free⁽¹⁾ software here ;-P So yes, openoffice is known here. I use it myself exclusively, at home. Recently I installed it for a coworker who lost Office that way. But many people don't care, they just install free office instead (free: see above). Often schools install OOo. - - ⁽¹⁾ Gratis. - -- Saludos from Murcia, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksn+iUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VuuQCfV3hgRsZRk8K4NMMQWcHQwei1 5fwAn2xilo5rb9mhNvxIDVagWNrDd2y1 =Jdhz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----