Re: [MLUG] Fighting the lock-in is hard to do...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Phillip Kelchen wrote:

> Since my point went well over their heads, I sent off the abstract as an 
> RTF.  They didn't understand that now requiring people that may have 
> been using a program that's not MS Office to do work on (and I know 
> several in this program right off the top of my head) either go find one 
> to ensure that formatting is absolutely correct with a .doc export just 
> because they screwed up their Web form is pretty smug of them to pull.

So Open Office will make a .doc, but you don't trust it to look right in 
Word?


> So the moral of this story is that the MS lock-in seems to be more with 
> laziness of some users to change one iota than any technical or other 
> issues. Which means that the burden is very, very much on the OSS crowd

Well, they are getting Word for "free" because the University has a site 
license that makes it so that the cost is invisible to individuals and 
departments.  We should work toward getting the knowledgable people to use 
OO, then argue against site licenses.  Once people start to think that 
maybe their beloved site license will go away, and the OO program actually 
works very well, they will have an incentive to switch.

Things are going well -- better than I would have expected 5 years ago.

Mike

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