[H-GEN] OpenOffice being pushed in the sub-$1000 PC market

[Benjamin]

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Hello :)

I just saw something interesting on a morning infotainment show[1]. Tim 
Shaw was advertising dodgy PCs. This caught my interest enough to want 
to find out what kind of rip-off was being pushed on the naieve computer 
buyer. They had a dodgy CD burner, dodgy monitor, etc and to make it 
look respectable had put it all into an IBM branded case. Anyway, then 
they brought up the list of software. Just above "windows 98" was a line 
proudly proclaiming "openoffice". Who'd've thunk it, hey? Free software 
might start making an impact on the day-to-day lives of average blo's 
pretty soon if this trend picks up. When enough people have openoffice 
at home libraries and educational institutions will surely have to 
provide it as an option on their own computers... and if it reads 
msoffice documents well enough, why bother with msoffice at all?

Well, I thought it was interesting, anyhow :)

Benjamin

[1] I'm on holidays. I don't have to justify my viewing habits to you.



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