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to: Mike `/m`
from: Randall Parker
date: 2003-09-06 19:51:22
subject: Re: IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child`s play

From: Randall Parker 

Younger people are quicker to learn new things and less averse to learning
new things? Oh, I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

So once rejuvenation therapies become widely available MS's hold on the
office software market should loosen. Cool.

Is Microsoft's fear getting in your way?

Mike '/m' wrote:

> I'm finding that the 20-somethings that we have been hiring are a lot more
> flexible in this area.  They pick up anything very quickly.
>
> Not everyone needs to switch to OpenOffice, just the companies and folk gor
> whom it makes sense to do so.
>
> Choice is nice.  Why is Microsoft so afraid of me having it?
>
>  /m
>

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