Re: [Sheflug] Can open office help?

[Bob Holland <bobholland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 05 February 2007 10:52, david wrote:
> The prevailing view around OO is that industry uses
>   Word,  so we should, although the industry standard argument doesn't
>  run to dumping Publisher! Plus funding is tied to specific products so
>  money is available to buy licenses but not available to spend on Open
>  Source support.

I suspect things will not change until job ads (especially those in 
Guardian-land) state things like 'experience of OOo an advantage' or until 
business owners offer incentives like... 

'You can continue to use proprietary software, or you can have a pay rise - 
your choice.'

Somebody also reminded me of this today...

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf 

Bob

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