[Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
- From: swapnil.bhartiya@xxxxxxxxx (Swapnil Bhartiya)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:03:35 +0100
On 01/10/2012 07:10 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote:
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 13:33 +0530, Yogesh wrote:
we do not want such people to use linux
Ouch ! Sharp fangs :) My English sucks big time.. Ok, what I really
meant was people who are stuck with Windows because they can run MS
office only on Windows and they are stuck with MS office for some
reason..
They are stuck with M$ Widows because they don't want to look at
options, because they don't want to change anything around them. Linux
won't do anything to such 'idiot' users. Yes, I am deliberately using
the world idiot because I help people migrate and once in a while I come
across such people who actually don't even need windows -- all they need
is a browser to Faceboook. But, they don't want Linux. If you give them
Linux they will complain about something else. They will want WMP, IE,
and then be able to install .exe viruses. Linux users are like organic
food buyers, clean water drinkers -- they make a conscious decision to
use Linux because of its technical, social and political merits.
I wonder why we need non-free Microsoft products at all given their
stand on competition and openness. Fortunately, we have projects like
LibreOffice. We must boost LibreOffice and help polish it further
instead of wasting time in discussing Microsoft's crapware. Buying M$
Widows copy for Linux is like feeding a shark only to come back and
attack us.
Thomas Penfield Jackson, the presiding judge in U.S. v. Microsoft, said:
"Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's actions have
conveyed to every enterprise with the potential to innovate in the
computer industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM, Compaq,
Intel, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its
prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that
insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against
one of Microsoft's core products. Microsoft's past success in hurting
such companies and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies
and businesses that exhibit the potential to threaten Microsoft. The
ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit
consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with
Microsoft's self-interest."
Swapnil
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