Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnb69jkh.13o.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
>> Nono I didn't say never. I said the problem is the inertia. Why do you
>> think Sun is giving away StarOffice? Not that I claim that StarOffice is
>> better than MS Office.
> 
> Sun is "giving away" StarOffice because a lot of it covered by the GNU
> public licence. They have no choice in the matter. And for the record, I

No, the original Star Office which Sun bought was a product you had to
pay. There was also a free version (gratis), but it was a bit reduced
IIRC. Sun released it to the OpenOffice initative because they saw that
as long as they cannot win in the desktop arena they cannot get people
to switch to solaris etc... Studies have shown that the biggest
hinderance in switching from Windows Desktop to Linux (or Solaris) for
most companies (small-medium sized) is the lack of MS Office or
something similar.

> Thanks for the recommendation for Mutt. Opera can also be as a mail client
> and newsgroup reader, as well as a web browser. In all of these tasks,
> Opera's performance is outstanding.

Haven't tried this. But Opera is Norwegian product you know ;-)

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