Hi :) Quite. For most people the answer is to shrug and pay the money because they are unaware of any other option and wherever they bought the machine from is unlikely to know either (or at least not admit to knowing).
I just did a quick search for "computers" on Amazon (since it happened to be open due to someone else's post) and found about 3 out of the first 5 machines it listed claimed to have OpenOffice pre-installed, one of the machines was a chrome-book and the other just didn't seem to mention any programs bundled with the computer. So, things do seem to be improving a bit but i imagine MS will fight against that. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 8 September 2013, 20:36 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Breaks in Writer Tom Davies wrote: > Recently OEMs have started putting trial versions of MSO on machines so that > people have to pay an additional amount a month or so after starting to use > their new machine but in the past it was really difficult to find and buy a > machine that didn't have MSO pre-installed. > Regards from A friend of mine got caught in that trap when she bought a new computer a couple of years ago. She called me up and asked how she could get access to her documents. OpenOffice to the rescue. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
