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Open Source Software Serves Niche Markets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-roll-the-concrete-over-it dept.

mahendra writes "News.com is carrying an article about localisation of OpenOffice.org. 'So, what's new about that?', you may ask. The article talks about the potential markets that proprietary software markets are ignoring. By the time they realize the potential, Open Source software will have made deep inroads into these markets..."

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  1. Dean is done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    FP, clownz.

    Anybody But Bush in '04 - He either lied or is a horrendous manager. You choose.

    1. Re:Dean is done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Actually all presidential candidates are liars.

      The difference is that the Democrats lie about sex, blow-jobs and botox-treatements. Republicans' lies get kids killed for empire-building.

    2. Re:Dean is done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Actually, all presidential candidates are liars.

      The difference is that Republicans lie about reasons for destroying evil, while Democrats lie about instilling a fascist PC regime that punishes people for being successful.

    3. Re:Dean is done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Silence, objectivist scum. Don't you have to reread Atlas Shrugged now? Off with you.

  2. First post about Hummus! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Hummus.

    mmm-MMM!

    Yep. Nothin' wrong with that!

  3. XBox rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...

    If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!

    1. Re:XBox rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I have yet to see a legitamate first post with that troll in it. You are a repetitive failure. Do you even have a point?

  4. Re:AH so THAT'S the deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Keep software proprietary and expensive
    2. No one buys it because its not worth the money
    3. ?????
    4. ?????

  5. I think you meant to say.... by Phreakiture · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    u Openoffice parolas esperante?

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    1. Re:I think you meant to say.... by Phreakiture · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Okay, so Slashdot does not support Unicode. In that case, I think you meant to say, "Cxu Openoffice parolas esperante?"

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  6. THE REAL STORY IS THE MEDIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did you folks know that about one week ago U.S. intelligence operatives uncovered a memo from a leading terrorist bemoaning the level of American success in Iraq? The memo was from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the world's most wanted Islamic terrorists today. Al-Zarqawi was exhorting Al Qaeda to promote a Sunni - Shiite civil war in Iraq, the only way he sees to turn around the American success in Iraq.

    We're winning! That's news, isn't it? A leading Islamic terrorist says that the United States is "suffocating" the jihad in the Middle East! Isn't that just what we went over there to do? Don't you think that's news?

    Apparently it's not.

  7. Did you know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Did you know it took longer for Senator Kennedy to try and cover up his Chappaquiddick accident than it took America to win the war against Saddam?

    The Truth about Ted Kennedy