Re: [edlug] RE: FOSS business models [was Big blue v Big poo]

[rjg <rjgrayr@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Gordon Guthrie wrote:
> Maintaining unsellable 'IP' also represents a untenable cost if the 'IP' 
> doesn't provide competitive advantage - reduce that cost by open 
> licensing it... (or build it with open source components - if it ain't a 
> source of competitive advantage to you, it ain't to nobody else neither)
>
> Microsoft themselves aren't the barrier to Linux desktop adoption (with 
> the partial exception of Excel - many businesses have multi-million 
> pound spreadsheet 'applications' running under Excel that are business 
> critical) - it is the niggling wee apps that only run on Windows - 
> switching 2,500 desktops involves finding every wee crudy bit of 

And how many of these business critical spreadsheets are returning 
correct answers? There us a very long standing problem with the 
statistical analysis functions in excel which MS made worse with their 
bugfix patches

Any serious business user of excel would have a compeditive advantage by 
using Gnumeric, which does everything excel does, does it more correctly 
and has more useful features excel doesn't have.

http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports.html
for anyonw who wants more information.
`	Robert.

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