[ILUG] Possible reason not to use openoffice...

[Justin Mason]

Wesley Darlington said:

> While reading ITweek yesterday, I came across an interesting article
> on openoffice. A chap from "charity Cooperation Ireland", Mike Doyle,
> was said to have said that 
> 
>     ... managing user expectations would be a big problem with an 
>     open source office suite. "If people know we have the source
>     code they may expect us to fix a bug, but we are not staffed
>     up to do this sort of work. Managing user expectation, which
>     is already difficult enough, will become even more difficult."

ROTFLMAO -- that is a classic!  He's basically saying his organisation's
policy would be to say "more than me job's worth missus" whenever anything
goes wrong!  He obviously prefers the idea of his customers paying $$$ for
MS software, and having no recourse when it breaks -- "that's just the way
it is, bloody computers".

BTW "Cooperation Ireland" are, according to
http://www.irishnews.com/k_archive/280998/nbusiness2.html , "a platform
for the development of many all-island economic, social and educational
initiatives."  It's just as well they're not a money-making venture,
'cos that quote IMO is up there with Gerald Ratner ;)

--j.