Re: Thousands wait in line for new Apple store - New linux store also opens (with photos)

"Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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 sup****t, 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.