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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julian Hall wrote: > 'Microsoft has said sales in the first three months of 2009 fell 6% from > the previous year - its first quarterly drop in 23 years as a public > company.' > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8015623.stm > > Wonder how much is due to people turning to open source alternatives > like Open Office? > All the more reason to push Open source alternatives, especially in the current economic climate, No company is going to save money by cutting jobs then go and buy software at great cost, are they, the unions would have a field day. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet :Saturday ** May 9th ** : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope - Launched April 23rd, 2009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknxbS4ACgkQaggq1k2FJq1BxgCeLqp3FS0CZnDOy8be8cpEGg0o +GoAmwfsxFQhqtYxFfbn6/+CEOXXuoCi =0AJm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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