I agree with you on the functionality of outlook for work. However, outlook is free as well, as long as you have licensed your Exchange server properly. Or at least that is what the MS licensing gurus told me when I bought Exchange 2003, and associated CALS. To connect to exchange server you need CALS, with the CALs come licensing for Outlook 2003. So why do I need another copy of Outlook with my office suite?
There is a problem with this tactic though. If they fix the obvious technical problems with their censorware, then you have already given up the high ground of arguing that censorship itself is wrong. People who have been arguing the fine points of how to impliment sensorship are not likely to listen to high minded ideas once the censorship is in place. We seem to have given up the morality argument entirely and are only arguing the technical details, and this worries me because I think the moral argument is strong against any form of censorship.
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You see. This is why they should have a standing army.
I agree with you on the functionality of outlook for work. However, outlook is free as well, as long as you have licensed your Exchange server properly. Or at least that is what the MS licensing gurus told me when I bought Exchange 2003, and associated CALS. To connect to exchange server you need CALS, with the CALs come licensing for Outlook 2003. So why do I need another copy of Outlook with my office suite?
There is a problem with this tactic though. If they fix the obvious technical problems with their censorware, then you have already given up the high ground of arguing that censorship itself is wrong. People who have been arguing the fine points of how to impliment sensorship are not likely to listen to high minded ideas once the censorship is in place. We seem to have given up the morality argument entirely and are only arguing the technical details, and this worries me because I think the moral argument is strong against any form of censorship.