Re: Microsoft monopoly threatens consumer buying choices

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From: Stefan Heimers
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00

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Steinar Bang wrote:

> > So, for me, if you don't like Microsoft, don't buy their
> > products. You do have choices.
> 
> No, you don't anymore...
> 
> > Oh, those choices aren't as good as choosing Microsoft you say?
> 
> The "goodness" of the actual products has nothing to do with it.  The
> fact that "everybody" has MSOffice, and insist on exchanging MSOffice
> documents where plain text would have sufficed, has everything to do
> with it.

Staroffice imports and exports Word and Excel files quite well. And
I'm sure most of the other Office-Packages will too.
And don't forget: Free software makes a lot of progress, it will
surpass comercial packages soon, becaus programmers can share their
source code and improve on it more efficiently than comercial
programmers who always have to reinvent the wheel.

	Stefan

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From: Stefan Heimers <sheimers@kosta.vseth.ethz.ch>
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Date: 1997/09/02
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