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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Mar 2007 22:13 UTC, submitted by Lord John

The OpenOffice Project has sent a letter to Michael Dell, showering praise on Dell's chairman and CEO and asking him to consider pre-loading OpenOffice onto PCs. The letter is the result of a flood of requests on Dell's online suggestion box, IdeaStorm, for Dell PCs pre-loaded with both Linux operating systems and the open-source suite of desktop productivity applications. John McCreesh, marketing project lead for OpenOffice.org, also asked Dell to consider making a financial contribution to the software's development.

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Works for me

by Constantine XVI on Mon 12th Mar 2007 22:57 UTC

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2006-11-02

Dell saves a bit of money per box by preloading OO.o instead of Corel WordPerfect
Sun gets more exposure for OpenOffice.org, which leads to more users. More users means more people to send in bug reports and feature requests, helping to improve OO.o
Since every Dell ships with OO.o, it suddenly makes much more sense to trade files in ISO ODF. More people using ODF pressures Microsoft to support it in their software.
I don't see how this could go wrong.

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RE: Works for me

by anda_skoa on Mon 12th Mar 2007 22:59 in reply to "Works for me"

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2005-07-07

I don't see how this could go wrong.

How about: Microsoft not likely being very pleased when one of the premium partners helps promoting something (ODF) the are in competition with?

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RE[2]: Works for me

by npang on Mon 12th Mar 2007 23:40 in reply to "RE: Works for me"

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2006-11-26

Dell provides a fair revenue stream for MS. They wouldn't be stupid enough to do something like increasing Dell's OEM prices just because Dell preload OO.o.

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