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Israeli Ministry of Commerce Picks OO.org Over MS
CaptainT writes "According to this article in The Register Microsoft office was replaced by Open Office in the Israeli employment agency.
MS scorns the defection...
This follows current Israeli antitrust legislation and the recent release by IBM and Sun of Hebrew support in OpenOffice.org. Is the Israeli Defence Force going to follow?"
I'm a staunch anti-occupation, anti-IDF individual because of Israel's brutal regime in the West Bank. But then I'm also an OOo supporter.
I'm torn.
Us Americans don't send them billions of dollars in aid every year just so they can go squander it on anti-American, pro-terrorist software. How can they claim to be our "allies" in the war against terror when they start using software based on principles of theft that Osama himself would agree to? This must stop. If Israel decides to go down the path of "Old Europe" and Red China we need to make sure that they don't do it with American tax dollars, which should only be used for building illegal settlements and killing Arabs.
The best line is where Microsoft criticizes OpenOffice as having "the features of Office 97 at best". What, Office 97 wasn't good enough? Now they admit it!
Palestinians also announced migration to both Open Office and KOffice.
When asked for comment Mr Arafat said "the Israeli and Palestinian people can't agree on much but one thing we see eye to eye on is that Microsoft is an evil behemoth and needs to be stopped."
Many are optimistic that the new Open Source philsophy in the Middle East could one day help bridge the gap between two peoples and lead to peace.
On slashdot, one must simply make statements conforming to an already-formed general consensus (ie: open office has issues) to be modded +insightful.
"There is absolutley NO Open Source in Baghdad!"
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Next time, while you're at it, try to make a mistake and put (at least) Knoppix CD in - patients now need increased OSS doses.
to the palestine people, or what's left of them.
Hmmmm.. nice read... so, in Israel, you install the Service Pack first, then Windows?;-)
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Why don't you label the OOo CD as Office XP Service Pack CD and charge $10 for it? You could rake in a bit in your locality!
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
It looks like you're trying to migrate away from Microsoft Office. What would you like me to do?
Hit the big red switch and give you a few minutes to reconsider?
Remind you that Bill 0wnz j00?
Send an MS FUD press release to The Register.
Commit harikari?
That last one is one I have been waiting a long time for Clippy to offer to do.
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You need to perform voodoo and raise the dead to be able to add page numbers to your documents in OpenOffice. In MS Office it's just one click away.
In USA, monkeys are running the country.
USA is great!
> I'm a bit pessimistic, you see
Too bad US law doesn't allow us to shop overseas; we're spending a mighty lot of money to buy third rate ones...
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Many are optimistic that the new Open Source philsophy in the Middle East could one day help bridge the gap between two peoples and lead to peace.
Unless palestinian coders are using emacs, and israeli coders are using vi, that is.
In that case there will never be peace...
"First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end."
United States stopped military/financial support for Israel. They will continue providing moral support though.
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OpenOffice is totally missing VB macro virus support. Microsoft really have been the pioneers in bringing the virus to places its never been before.
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Man, that's amazing. I can think of a a few employees where I work that I'd like to replace with OO as well. I'm sure a couple could even be replaced with a very small shell script.
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