[nmglug] open source advocacy presentation,

[Andres Paglayan]

Thank you for your feed back,
examples like this and the $4k MS DST fix is what I need,

On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Mark Galassi wrote:

>
>     Andres> If you had one hour with regular people to explain why
>     Andres> using open source instead of proprietary tools, more
>     Andres> specifically, why using openOffice instead of MS office,
>
> An important thing people have to focus on is what is strategic for
> them.  Once people focus on strategy for their office or family they
> are thinking of a longer time line.
>
> On a timeline of several years proprietary packages are almost never
> strategically sound for your application.  This is because it is
> unlikely that the company's marketing focus will stay aligned with
> your needs.