On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:37:00 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> On 18/04/2011 17:09, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:02:19 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>
>>> In reality, MS Word is /the only/ word processor that anybody ever
>>> uses. I tiny few people might use OpenOffice these days, but most
>>> people have never heard of it. To them, a word processor = MS Word.
>>
>> So, where did you pull the statistics for the number of people who use
>> OpenOffice?  Did you just invent that statistic, or do you have a
>> citation?
>>
>> Most of the people I deal with use OpenOffice and prefer it to Word. 
>> So if you're just going with anecdotal evidence based on your own
>> experiences, that's fine, but don't cite that as if it's fact.
> 
> Admittedly I don't know hundreds of thousands of people. Still, the vast
> majority of people I know IRL don't know what Linux is, have never heard
> of Firefox, and think MS Office is the only "proper" office suite. You
> know, as if anything you can download for free off the Internet is
> either an illegal pirate copy or a shoddy imitation.

Many people do feel that way.  I remember reading a story in the past 
year about a teacher who told a student to get rid of that Linux stuff 
because they must've pirated it - nobody gives stuff away for free.

> If you're going to tell me that among computer experts the picture is
> different, then sure. But how many people are computer experts?

Not everyone I work with at work is a computer expert.

Jim

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