Re: Sam's is selling Open Office

[Nate Reindl <fiction@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:24:50PM -0400, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> When I demonstrate Mozilla to friends and associates -- and how it
> suppresses popups -- they ask me where they can download it. Nobody asks
> where they can buy it.

This is completely different.  Historically, people considered browsers
to be free in nature; they resided on servers across the Internet,
waiting for users to download, install, and run them.

Office suites, however, always carried with them the need for payment or
an obscure license.

-- 
Nathaniel Reindl, an extreme leftist stuck in an extreme rightist world.

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