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Such a model would create an amazing marketing opportunity for a Linux based OS. Instead of paying an annoying monthly subscription you get a free office syste
by 7952 12y ago
Such a model would create an amazing marketing opportunity for a Linux based OS. Instead of paying an annoying monthly subscription you get a free office system built in. Not including such basic functionality with the OS is like selling a phone without batteries. Suddenly Linux becomes a premium product with lots of high quality software included compared to the annoying app store you get with Windows.
- derefr 12y agoIn other words, it would force all the people currently pirating Windows and Office to actually decide between the products on offer based on their previously-merely-nominal market positions. (Which is, indeed, what Creative Cloud has done for Adobe.)