Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

Hi :)
This is all just my own opinion and i am not even a member of TDF and not even vaguely aware of 
their thoughts or opinions except where they annoy me by disagreeing with what i want but ... 

+1

To make people buy it MS have to do everything they can to ensure that everyone thinks they MUST 
the newest MS Office even though they probably don't.  "The Emperor’s New Clothes" is such an 
excellent story to read to gain an insight into how MS works.  After reading it one finds that so 
much of what MS do makes so much more sense.  It helps separate fact from FUD.  Bear in mind that 
MS is a profit-making US company with almost all it's shareholders being US citizens.  It sometimes 
sells software to make that profit so the software is not it's main aim.  It's main aim is profit.  

Errr, if this post gets me chucked off the list then so long chaps and chap-esses.  It's been good 
fun here :)
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 15:40
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their 
> office products instead
>
> On 24/09/12 15:34, Jay Lozier wrote:
> > I do very little actual document writing and what writing I do tends to be simple documents 
> > closer to a short office memo.
>
> And that is what the vast majority of (any) Office suite users do. This is the whole point about 
> the constant upgrading path that MS uses in order to generate revenue (and let's not forget that 
> Office is the biggest cash generating product that MS sells by far) - most users don't NEED to 
> upgrade but they have to because otherwise they get no support.
>
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