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David Brown
- Jan 1, 1970
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Robert said:["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:40:35 +0200,
The "truth" is another one I think.
The "truth" is yet another one I think.
Where I work, nobody except a few nerds like me have ever heard about
OpenOffice. Let alone the sectretaries who are the main users of office
software. When you tell them that there exist other programs to write
stuff (mostly single-page documents which, in big, colorful letters,
advise people to rinse their coffee cups after use or to shut the door)
they look at you funny because they have no idea what a "program" is.
They'd simply balk if they were told that now they were to use something
else. You'd probably get away with it if you replaced the Oo logo with
that of Word and did away with the splash screen. Then they'd think they
were working with just another version of Word.
robert
Exactly the point - if a company wants to switch to OpenOffice (or
StarOffice, if they are an American company and want to pay money so
that they have someone to sue), they should simply do the swap on the
company PCs. Most users will barely notice the difference - they have
no idea what the programs they use are called in the first place. When
asked what word processor they use, people will tell you it is "Windows
XP", or perhaps "Dell".