The argument most trolls use is that you can use OO rather than MS Office, since you save the cost of buying licenses when using OO over MS Office, you get a cost savings in that aspect.
Of course, for most companies, given the choice between free OO and paying for MS Office, they'll still choose MS Office for a number of reasons.
No retraining needed being the biggest reason. The second being that OO is asstastic in almost every imaginable way for your everyday desk jockey that just wants to get their job done and not be part of some crusade against MS.
All the cost savings depends on ignoring the fact that people are used to Office, even the transition to the ribbon isn't really that bad, and MS Office has far more features and better performance, like it or not. Retraining the people who use Office and the IT staff that supports it is expensive, and really in the grand scheme of thing, software licenses are SO trivial to a business that the argument for savings is a joke. The computer itself will use more power in a few years than the cost of licenses for the software on it.
The cost savings argument is rather ignorant and short sighted, its only true if you have such tunnel vision that you ignore all the other work that goes into using the tool.
I'm not wiling to be the one to push to convert people to OpenOffice. It's always risky to implement change, and most people don't have any will to change even for the better if they don't get something for it directly. (I guess if you told everyone at the company that they would get the license saving's for two years as direct payment, they prorbaly would switch likity split.)
But I would take difference with the idea that OpenOffice is so less capable than MS Office. The only major item that has ever come up in years of usage was that oocalc can't open as large a spreadsheet. I'm created dozens of reports (distributed in PDF once done), ran departments, managed people wrote countless memos all using OpenOffice. It's perfectly capable as long as you don't need to collaborate with someone who is using a large Word document.
Personally I was always sad that WordPerfect diminished so long ago. That was a great WP.
If you want to see a real free trade agreement, you need look no further than our own constitution:
Article I, Section 9. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another.
That's it. In contrast CAFTA is 3700 pages long. NAFTA is 2000 pages long. These agreements do not give freedom, they take it away.
The best reply in a sea of rants.
I have see two Sony Vio laptops, which tend to be a bit underpowered, esp, under the weight of fat fat Vista. The minute you take it out of an overnight sleep Vista will trash the disk for 20 min. The near zero latency of the SSD means the laptop is usable from the start, the HD is like molasses.
One could argue against sw bloat, or that the SSD doesn't actually save power in some cases but from a raw performance eliminating the seek and rotational delays can be a huge boon. Most people don't need capacity, they are well under the drive storage needs.
I did find this interesting:
While it may seem odd that the Seagate drive performed better on a restart than on a cold boot, keep in mind that the drive is still spinning and plenty of OS data is still residing in memory.
I didn't think that data in memory (not in a disk cache) would be preserved across boots. I think this does not make sense.
The faiulre mode of an SSD is disconcerting to me. People don't backup enough as is it.
Surprise due today. Also the rent.
