[lbo-talk] The extreme Google brain

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 18:01:02 PDT 2009


Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:


> (The Pinnacle of Stupidity was a graphics design studio refusing to
> take a OpenOffice document because they would have to "install
> unauthorized software" and that they didn't have permission to
> "install customers applications to open files".).

Why not just use OO's "save as" and give them a Word file if that is what they want?


> I tried to explain the nature of Open Source software, and make a case
> that it would be benefical to them to accept works in open file
> formats, to no avail....
>
> I frankly thought I was speaking to someone from some cult.

So did they.

-- Sandy Harris, Quanzhou, Fujian, China



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