e-letter wrote: > It is difficult to understand why a business > would waste time trying to use LO; if a customer uses m$, the supplier > might as well do so also and consider the m$ price as a cost of > conducting business.
I've seen plenty of small, medium and large businesses that chose to use a free software office suite (so far I've only seen OpenOffice.org, but the same arguments would hold for LibreOffice). Virtually none of them did it only to save money, and those who have this kind of motivations are more likely to go back to Microsoft Office, so indeed in this case it would be a "waste of time" as you suggest. But, in almost all cases I've seen, the reasons were different, like getting rid of dependency on a specific vendor, or being able to run the same office suite across different operating systems. In these cases, switching to a free software office suite is not a waste of time, and compatibility with Microsoft formats is vital. Regards, Andrea. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
