From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 23:35:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from impatience.valueclick.com (impatience.valueclick.com [216.246.25.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7599437B7CF for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ask@valueclick.com) Received: (qmail 24893 invoked by uid 500); 18 Apr 2000 06:35:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2000 06:35:31 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:35:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Ask Bjoern Hansen To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: J McKitrick , David Schwartz , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ anti-trust case In-Reply-To: <20000417233941.A532@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: [...] > widespread that everyone else is forced to switch. People don't > really care about the OS: if everyone used StarOffice, I know lots of > people would be happy to run it on Unix rather than Windoze. In Denmark one of the major banks are installing StarOffice instead of MS Office on 6000 workstations. (Pretty much everywhere in the organization I believe). Still on windows though, but it's a great start. We have also recently had a major debat about if the goverment should actively encourage it's "deparments" to use open source software instead of Microsoft products. And if nothing else, then it made a lot of spotlight on the possibilities and the problems. We live in interesting times. :) - ask -- ask bjoern hansen - more than 70M impressions per day, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message