re: Yet another company hates Internet Exploder
Monday, March 1, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|I know a number of non-technically minded computer users who[...]
|also turn their noses up at free office suites like Open Office
|and would rather pay to get Microsoft Office.
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Those are the peopleidiots you see sending others *.DOCXs
(i.e. not bright enough to change the default Save format[1] of Word 2007).
|The mindset is "if it is free it couldn't be any good
|or the people who make it would be charging for it".
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Ah, the ugly face of consumerism
aka people with too much money and not enough sense.
|I would say brand recognition and habituation
|also have a role to play in their decisions.
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Those *could* stand on their own
(if you ignore the whole infection thing identified ONLY with *that* brand)
but it could easily be characterized as ignorance and passive consumerism.
[1] ...the inclusion of which a court recently declared to be
in violation of i4i's "intellectual property" rights.
M$ has been having to remove it from their products since early this year.
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