Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> e-letter wrote:
>   
> > It is difficult to understand why a business
> > would waste time trying to use LO; if a customer uses m$, the supplier
> > might as well do so also and consider the m$ price as a cost of
> > conducting business.
> >     
>
> I've seen plenty of small, medium and large businesses that chose to use
> a free software office suite (so far I've only seen OpenOffice.org, but
> the same arguments would hold for LibreOffice).
>
> Virtually none of them did it only to save money, and those who have
> this kind of motivations are more likely to go back to Microsoft Office,
> so indeed in this case it would be a "waste of time" as you suggest. 
>
> But, in almost all cases I've seen, the reasons were different, like
> getting rid of dependency on a specific vendor, or being able to run the
> same office suite across different operating systems. In these cases,
> switching to a free software office suite is not a waste of time, and
> compatibility with Microsoft formats is vital.
>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>   
If you want to know about one very good reason for not using M$ Google 
Ball Guitar String Co. 

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