Re: [opensuse] legalities

On Sunday 30 September 2007 04:59:10 am G T Smith wrote:
Richard Creighton wrote:
primm wrote:
It's true. It is impossible to get people to change from using office
with xp. They will not use vista either. Yeah. read it again. Somehow
microsoft has instilled in them that this is the only way to write a
document and send e-mails. They will _not_ change to Linux or vista.
windows 98 is just fine however. They hate those superb cast iron IBM
keyboards that we all love. They want proper plastic keyboards and a
mouse with a wire. The menus are not in the right place in openoffice
anyway they will tell you. They feel safe with xp and office. In the
real world thats what there is. I'm dealing with housewives who do word
processing on a part time basis. They simply cannot change. To them,
Openoffice and Linux is a joke.

Lynn x

Seein' as how M$ isn't supporting XP anymore, what would happen if you
had a hardware failure and *had* to install the latest 'offering' from
M$ on new hardware? These housewives would be forced to learn new

<snip>

Richard

Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for
XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies
as M$ expected :-)

Few hundreds reasons per product.
Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes out as one good computer
upgrade (no monitor and accessories).

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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup
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I felt free to pick up this one in:
http://en.opensuse.org/Famous_quotes

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