Re: Sam's is selling Open Office

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 18:11, Kara Pritchard wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2003, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> 
> > Still, I can't imagine why anybody would spend even $27 for OO when you
> > can download it for free.
> 
> Three reasons:
> 
> 1) User Mentality.. It's not worth something unless you pay for it.

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.

> 2) Commercial Product Support

by Sun?

> 3) Extra templates (legal, iirc) that I haven't seen out there (yet)

what do they do?

--Doc


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