Firefox market share bounces back 6686
You are going in circles, Ray, and it shows. The issue was, as you say "lock-in". I think that you are referencing some notion that a user who has used MS products for a length of time would have a lot of files in those formats that it would be time consuming to convert to some other format used by an alternative supplier. The existence of this effort is used to convince the user to stay with Microsoft and so avoid the bother (and cost) of switching. Fair enough?
But difficult to have done or not, the OSS products can directly use the Microsoft formats, so the whole issue is a red herring that does not actually exist. People are not staying with Microsoft to avoid the costs of switching, they are staying with Microsoft because they are satisfied with Microsoft's performance overall and have no reason to change.
Well Wordpad is one of those open source gizmos, Ray. Why don't you just re-write that part? You could sell it to people who think that not having that problem is worth money to them.
Pretty much par for the course with billwg. Get used to a lack of replies to any substantive point. I've got a file with nearly two dozen posts he's never actually...
Well the important courts have, i.e. the US Federal Courts. The EC stuff hasn't gotten to the trial stage yet. What else?
Well, Ray, you keep saying linux on the desktop is growing by leaps and bounds, but they never seem to show up on the scoreboard. Are they playing some secret game? Maybe they are masking their signatures and impersonating NT.