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Re: HOTTEST TOOLS MAN!

Subject: Re: HOTTEST TOOLS MAN!
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:34:37 -0700

JB Foster wrote:
| Also of worry to me, according to PC Magazine's John Dvorak:
"OpenOffice
| with the presentation graphics module is impressive. Microsoft should
be
| extremely concerned, and I assume the company will find some way to
break
| this software, perhaps with a service patch to Windows XP that
| "accidentally" causes weird problems. This will have to be subtle,
lest it
| draw attention to the tactic."

I'm not in the least worried. Open source projects have a history of having a quicker response rate than proprietary companies.

Also, Sun Microsystems, which released the code for OpenOffice.org continues to support the project. Sun is one of the few companies that has a chance to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft.

For these reasons, if Microsoft were to do as Dvorak predicted, OO.o would probably be uninstallable on Windows for less than a month.

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