Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Boaz Rymland]

Nobody said that M$ is the root of evil and Sun is the source of all good.

Even if the tactics and ways of M$ and Sun are equally ugly, and I really
can't answer on that, the key difference is that Sun is pushing a product
that first and foremost promotes open standards and that is *good*. As
longs as their biz ways are not truly sickening, I think that its better
than the same approach taken by M$ - but to push a closed
source, irreplaceable product that further enhance their dominance not due
to technological supremacy.

I have absolutely no warm feelings about Sun. Its just that open standards
(ODT in this case) is in the right direction, and it happens that Sun is
pushing in that direction as well.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:26 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:

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> OpenOffice's free price and open source was a marketing tool too.
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> true FOSS office type products (word processors, a spreadsheet or two) and
> so on, that were crushed by StarOffice (and OpenOffice).
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> Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
> My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(
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