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. :) -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org