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Mon Sep 19 17:48:52 EDT 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/333341.html

On Saturday 17 September 2005 10:29, Tim Roberts wrote:
> James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >I think the motivation is to ween people off of M$ products altogether,
>
> Well, CrossOver Office doesn't really do that.  You're still running
> Microsoft Office.
>
> >...to get
> >them used to working an a unix environment and to the idea of using open
> >alternatives rather than thinking that commercial software is somehow
> >"better".
>
> Regardless of your opinion on their operating systems, only a religious
> zealot would try to argue that Microsoft Office is not better than any of
> the open source alternatives.

And also the converse.

-- 
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/

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