"Cost of compromise" is definitely the worst. Utter bullshxt.
Apparently following an ISO standard and refusing to prefer a
proprietary file format ("open" in name only) counts as an
"interoperability failure".On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > Well, of course it is about LibreOffice, at least on Windows. > > I despise these campaigns. The one about GoogleDocs is also icky. It's too > much like dealing with an used-car salesman. > > There are ways for Microsoft to promote the Office feature set without > calling out alternatives, and there are more playful ways of drawing > comparisons (thinking of the Mac v. PC business back-and-forth and the > Windows Phone bake-off against your smartphone $100 bets). > > This just makes Microsoft folks look scared and heartless. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: libreoffice-bounces+dennis.hamilton=acm....@lists.freedesktop.org > [mailto:libreoffice-bounces+dennis.hamilton=acm....@lists.freedesktop.org] On > Behalf Of Ivan Timofeev > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:21 > To: Luc Castermans > Cc: Libreoffice > Subject: Re: what can we learn from this "add"? > > Hi Luc, > > On 10.04.2012 11:31, Luc Castermans wrote: >> Altough not about LibreOffice we should learn from attached: >> http://www.whymicrosoft.com/en-us/pages/openoffice.aspx > > Don't take it to heart ;) Microsoft makes money. > > Ivan > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
