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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by curt15 on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:11AM (#12412452)
Doubt it. I would imagine that many lay users associate "free" with low quality. "Open" on the other hand has positive connotations.
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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by vertex-four on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:18AM (#12412480)
Hell, in a few years' time, Silicon Valley might finally have made "free" an outright bad thing for some significant group of people.
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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by wlesieutre on Friday September 02, 2016 @10:04AM (#12413090)
Silicon Valley, where "free" means "don't get used to this because we're selling to google and shutting it down in three months"
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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by stephenr on Friday September 02, 2016 @11:06AM (#12413506)
Or it means "we're data mining the fuck out of you, your granny, her cat, and the guy who's banging your wife, so we can deliver you 'relevant' ads"
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