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Submission + - Why Microsoft is so scared of OpenOffice (infoworld.com) 2

GMGruman writes: A recent Microsoft video on OpenOffice is naively seen by some as validating the open source tool. As InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues shows, the video is really a hatchet job on OpenOffice. But why is Microsoft so intent on damaging the FOSS desktop productivity suite, which has just a tiny market share? Rodrigues figured out the real reason by noting who Microsoft quoted to slam OpenOffice: businesses in emerging markets such as Eastern Europe that aren't already so invested in Office licenses and know-how. In other words, the customers Microsoft doesn't have yet and now fears it never will.

Comment Re:If you are interested in health care economics (Score 1) 464

read

Who Killed HealthCare?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure (Hardcover) Regina Herzlinger

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-HealthCare-Americas-Consumer-Driven/dp/0071487808/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200766820&sr=1-1

Yeah! That's a great idea! Let's take all we've been doing so far and just do it more, and further extremize it. Everybody knows that the best way to cure a headache is banging your forehead on the wall...

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