Robert Derman wrote: > Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> 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. >> > If you want to know about one very good reason for not using M$ Google > Ball Guitar String Co.
Can you provide a link? Interested in reading this. Andy -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
