🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <87ww6eqb03.fsf@ivm.de>,
	Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
>timothyh@abac.com (Tim Hanson) writes:
>> Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:
>> <snip>
>> >> Where a standard exists, if you want to compete you have to adapt to it.
>> >No, those evil standards need to be boycotted and ignored.
>> >> >And, practically, why buy office suites that emulate MS stuff, to a
>> >> >greater or lesser degree, when you could just buy the MS stuff?
>> >> Because competing packages can be far better products!
>> >Only free competing packeges can be better products, proprietary ones are as
>> >much dirt and junk as MS office. 
>> >> >It doesn't matter how they gained their monopoly position.  It could be
>> >> >through better marketing, or through anticompetitive practices, or even
>> >> >through technical superiority.
>> >They gained it soley by making deals with $atan.
>> >
>> >	Klaus Schilling
>> 
>> Klau$ey, have you ever had to actually live on your own outside an academic
>> setting, or where you actually had to use software for other than political
>> reasons?
>Starving is better than living from using $tar/ms/applix etc. office.

then go starve, I'm bored of your balls-talk...

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