"Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> LOL. Let the MS fan boys pay big bucks for MS-Office.
>>
>> I always thought the M$ price for it was extortion in the age of
>> commodity
>> software. Especially when in places like Asia it sells for 1/10 the
>> cost.
>> But OO is free as in beer.
>
> Maybe it does.
> Maybe it does not.
>
> The facts show that Open Office is on life support, much like Linux.
> IOW virtually nobody is using it on the desktop.

Funny. I make big points with acquaintances and relatives when they ask,
which Office package should they buy. With 15 MS-Office varieties out there
it is a hard choice. Sales people always like selling the $600+ Ultimate
2007 versions.

I say, save your money, buy me a beer later if you like this option. Go to
http://www.openoffice.org/ and download and install it. Try it for a week,
a month or however long you want. If you like then you just saved a bundle.
Actually had a case of beer dropped off in one case.

In the local store, a full retail version of MS Office Ultimate 2007 Retail
DVD is $850... stupid to pay that much. Bet most go for the stripped down
sub-version of it, Home and student OEM for $130. Still, with Open Office
there are no "stripped" sub-par users.