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On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:29 +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > Its easy to take the M$ approach and sell people lots of copies of office for > people to hide their data in but if we really want to help people we must > make it clear to them that if they really want to take advantage of computing > they have to actually organise their data and business. Could you explain? I use some office type software (OOo) for invoices, records, some data collecting sheets, letters etc plus email and sparse calendar use - nothing that actually need a heavyweight suite - supplement it with more specialised software as needed. I shall do my accounting in Gnucash in future (no VAT). I have the tiniest of businesses, more a large hobby that has income to cover expenses actually. So I don't know the needs of larger businesses. Nor how having been straitjacketed into MSO restricts their capabilities (I understand the lock-in issue). > They can do it early > on in the process or they can try later - and almost certainly fail. > M$ have made billions out of selling people a pup, please dont sell that pup > to others just because its free. So, to promote GL we'd need a set of essential software requirements, perhaps in order of priority. Is there a LUG fact sheet on this anywhere in the UK we could refer to? And we could refer business contacts to to whet their appetite. Or a published guide to migrating a business. -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html