[ale] Transition to OpenOffice / Dumb salespeople rant!!! OT

[Jonathan Glass (IBB)]

On that same note: doesn't the Office license agreement require you to
own a valid Windows license?  How does using Crossover Office abrogate
this requirement?

Jonathan Glass
RHCE, A+, Network+, Linux+, MCP
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478-737-7742



-----Original Message-----
From: Dow Hurst [mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:10 PM
To: Keith Morris; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Transition to OpenOffice / Dumb salespeople rant!!!
OT


When the boss says "Your all gonna use it or ante up the licensing fee 
yourself for MS-Office or leave", is when all those MS-weenies will 
switch. ;-)
Dow


Keith Morris wrote:

> sorry, I just had to drop a quick note to blow off some steam.  I have
> been pushing to move our company as open source as possible and have 
> been fairly successful.  Finally I convinced the boss to "beta test" 
> OpenOffice on some of our sales peoples machines (I have already 
> successfully moved all of the production machines to OO). So yesterday

> one of our project managers installed OO on his and a sales persons 
> machine.  I hadn't even gotten a chance to go setup their options for 
> them.
>
> Well, I get a call earlier from one of the sales people saying... "I
> was working on a document with 'that open office' that you have been 
> tracking...I had been working on it for about 2 hours...went to 
> lunch...came back and made some more changes then selected some text 
> and it crashed...it said it would try to recover the document, but it 
> failed and I lost everything.  So I'm dumping that thing and going 
> back to Word because I can't afford for that to happen."
>
> To this I asked if he was saving the document all along and he said 
> "No,   I probably should have been, but I'm still dumping it."
>
> Every day I feel more and more like "Fred" from the CDW
> commercials..."Hey Fred, I fixed my laptop but it still doesn't work"
>
> Thanks for the vent.
>
> Keith Morris
> Creative Director
> Design / Effects
> IQ Television Group
> Atlanta, GA
> 404-255-3550
> http://www.iqtv.com
>
>
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