sadly everything has a price
WastedTimes micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
| Author: | santa [ Sun 02 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
Micahel West writes "As reported on OpenOffice.org: 'For an undisclosed sum but reputed to be in the billions, micros0ft's Bill Gates has personally bought the leading open-source desktop project. Saying he "was sick and tired of open-source eating away at his profits," the world's richest man decided to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy OpenOffice.org. It will form part of a growing list of micros0ft acquisitions including several erstwhile competitors, a considerable number of prominent politicians, and a few small governments |
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| Author: | violetta [ Sun 02 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
sadly everything has a price |
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| Author: | Lord [ Sun 02 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
i guess they want to remove any compition with thier office 
realy this freeware was very cool |
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| Author: | jkf [ Sun 02 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
It looks like Gates may be in for another battle in the courtroom with the Anti-Monopoly laws. Depending on how much of the world is using OpenOffice as an alternative to MS Office, he may be forced to give it up because Microshaft is cornerning the market again, just like it did with the internet browser. Unless they want to share their Office technology with the computing community (which is not likely), we should be seeing ClosedOffice on its way. Although MS Office is a good application, it has become unaffordable for the majority of home users. And by taking away their competition, they can set the pricing even steeper and offer a lower quality product in the future. This is exactly the kind of stuff that urges cracking and bootlegging of their software. |
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| Author: | ComputerUser [ Sun 02 Apr, 2006 ] |
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Well I grabbed the latest version off the web site, just in case  |
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| Author: | duckster [ Sun 02 Apr, 2006 ] |
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He just has to have his hands in everything. Everyone watch your purses and wallets...... |
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| Author: | aiolos [ Sun 02 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
Can someone say 'April Fools Day'? I can't believe so many people bought it... |
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| Author: | violetta [ Mon 03 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
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| Author: | jkf [ Mon 03 Apr, 2006 ] |
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Don't know about the rest of you all, but April fools falls on April 1st... .... .... .... . |
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| Author: | Lord [ Mon 10 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
i guess it is april lie lol how it still releasing version while it bought by micros0ft or even why micros0ft had intrest to improve freeware because simply nothing is free come from micros0ft here new portable version *http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/portableoo/portable_openoffice_2.0.2_en-us.zip?download released on April 7, 2006 i must say nice one santa |
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| Author: | nargd [ Fri 21 Apr, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: micros0ft Buys OpenOffice.org |
micros0ft paid BILLIONS for Openoffice.org? My God, people will believe ANY rumour if it is outrageous enough!  |
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