From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-05 05:29:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1046870680 1360 129.241.83.78 (5 Mar 2003 13:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:24:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34895 Date: 2003-03-05T13:24:40+00:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > "Preben Randhol" 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 ;-) -- () Join the worldwide campaign to protect fundamental human rights. '||} {||' http://www.amnesty.org/