[ILUG] random web bits

[Niall O Broin]

On Saturday 10 July 2004, fuzzbucket at eircom.net (fuzzbucket) wrote:

>bobb wrote:
>> 
>> from the reg:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/06/sourcenext_horse/
>> 
>
>I assume thereg is being tongue-in-cheek when it describes Star Office
>as a "knock off"...

Why? For values of "knock off" which include "Product with more than a passing
similarity to better known competitor" Star Office / Open Office can fairly be
described as a (Microsoft) Office knock-off. 

I know of one pilot implementation of OO where the only remark made to the
support person by the people who had their Microsoft Office replaced by Open
Office was "Oh - did we get a new version of Office?" Sounds like a pretty
accurate knock off to me.


Niall