New York Times Plugs OpenOffice Suite

MrNovember writes "The New York Times (registration blah blah) describes a new choice for office suites. The writer seems a bit slanted toward OpenOffice but it's a fair discussion of its pros and cons. The article has identified some interesting compatibility issues to those who aren't using OpenOffice but might. Again we see major media discussing open source as an actual alternative to a longstanding standard. The article concludes amusingly with 'Every now and then, you get what you don't pay for;' just tack on 'Open Source' to the beginning for the perfect sig." We've gotten numerous submissions recently from people whose [company/school/whatever] is switching to OpenOffice.

Comments

Brings a smile to my face.

[YanceyAI]

Sometimes I derive great pleasure thinking of Microsoft lawyers running around saying, "Hey wait, who can we sue!?" and MS lackies running around going, "Hey wait, how can we run those Open Source people outta business!?"

Must be hard to compete with a good, free product minus draconian licensing. It's just beautiful man.

Re:perfect sig? addendum!

[Telastyn]

Spam: every now and then, you get what you don't pay for

Pr0n: every now and then, you get what you don't pay for

Warez:every now and then, you get what you don't pay for...

Nice to think about what's happening in Microsoft

[pubjames]

Somewhere in a Microsoft meeting room there's a whiteboard with this written on it:

Defeating Linux and open source apps - strategy

• identify strengths and weaknesses of opponent (done)
• ???
• Defeat linux and open source!

They must be tearing their hair out. Nelson "Ha Ha".

Re:perfect sig? The coin Flips..

[Fjord]

More like "Windows: every now and then you pay for what you got"

Re:Resumes

[tclark]

>Microsoft doesn't take Word format resumes on their website .. they insist on ASCII only. Now isn't that interesting?

They're probably worried about getting macro viruses.