MS' PR targetting OpenSource (was: They've done it again...)

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Saturday, April 3, 2004, at 07:54  AM, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> It's so nice when big companies are interested in their customers
> knowing the truth.
>
>   http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts

That Microsoft is directly addressing Linux strongly suggests that  
Linux is on-par with Windows.  While most of the people on this list  
already know that, many others don't.  I would like to believe that  
this PR stunt by MS will actually open more people's eyes to Linux.

In the same vein, Microsoft has published this about OpenOffice.org:

    
http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/opensource/ 
discguides/OpenOffice.pdf

reproduced here:

   http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/openoffice/OpenOffice.pdf

My thoughts are that Microsoft has gone through considerable time and  
effort to point out that OpenOffice.org may not suite people's business  
needs.  Are they right?  Only the people in the business can be the  
judge of what is right for the business.  To test-drive the latest  
version of OpenOffice.org for Windows, they can download a  
self-extracting archive:

   http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/openoffice/OOo_1.1.1_Win32Intel_install.exe

or if they have a BitTorrent client:

    
http://cwelug.org/~rwcitek/openoffice/ 
OOo_1.1.1_Win32Intel_install.exe.torrent

Just download, click, and install.

Regards,
- Robert


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