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

Andy Brown wrote:
> Robert Derman wrote:
>   
> > 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.
> >     
>
> Can you provide a link?  Interested in reading this.
>
> Andy
>   
Google Ball Guitar Strings & Microsoft, it will bring you to a number of 
articles about Ball and their dispute with M$.  The upshot is that Ball 
decided to strip ALL M$ software out of their company because of 
Microsoft's business practices.  They replaced Windows with Linux, M$ 
Office with OpenOffice, and IE with Firefox. 

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